Australian Biological Resources Study
| Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories | ||
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References | ||
| Xanthoparmelia stanthorpensis Elix & Kantvilas | ||
| Mycotaxon 71: 92 (1999). T: Queensland, Paling Yard Creek, 21 km ESE of Stanthorpe, 28°50'S, 151°59'E, 1000 m, on granite rocks at margin of grazed area and wet sclerophyll forest, J. A. Elix 35786, 6 Sept. 1993; holo: CANB. | ||
| Thallus foliose, loosely adnate to adnate, to 4-7 cm wide. Lobes imbricate or not, radiating, flat becoming sublinear to subirregular, irregularly branched, 1-3 mm wide, developing sublinear-elongate laciniae, 0.7-1.5 mm wide; apices of the marginal lobes subrotund. Upper surface yellow-green, dull in centre but shiny at lobe apices, emaculate, with transverse or irregular cracks, without isidia or soredia. Medulla white. Lower surface ± dull, smooth, pale tan to dark brown; rhizines moderately dense, simple, 0.3-0.5 mm long, concolorous or becoming darker. Apothecia common, sessile or shortly pedicellate, 0.7-3.5 mm wide; disc concave at first, becoming ± flat or undulate, dark brown; thalline exciple smooth, thick, involute, becoming thin and slightly lacerate. Ascospores ellipsoidal, 8-10 x 4-6 µm. Pycnidia common, immersed. Conidia bifusiform, 6-7 x 0.7-1 µm. CHEMISTRY: Cortex K-; medulla K-, C-, KC-, P-; containing usnic acid (minor), diffractaic acid (major), barbatic acid (trace), 4-O-demethylbarbatic acid (trace). | ||
| This endemic Australian species seems to be rare on rocks in the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland, in the vicinity of Stanthorpe. | ||
| Elix & Kantvilas (1999b) | ||
| Checklist Index |
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References |
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