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| Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories | ||
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References | ||
| Bulbothrix tabacina (Mont. & Bosch) Hale | ||
| Phytologia 28: 481 (1974); Parmelia tabacina Mont. & Bosch in J.P.F.C.Montagne, Syll. Gen. Sp. Crypt. 327 (1856) & in F.A.W.Miquel, Pl. Jungh. 4: 443 (1855 or 1857). T: Java, [Indonesia], F.W.Junghuhn; lecto: L; isolecto: PC, fide M.E.Hale, Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 32: 24 (1976). | ||
| Thallus adnate to tightly adnate, to 4–7 cm wide. Lobes subirregular to sublinear, 1.5–5 mm wide; margins with moderately dense bulbate cilia; cilia large, conspicuously inflated. Upper surface pale grey, flat, shiny, with sparse to moderately dense maculae, continuous; isidia sparse, mostly simple, less than 0.5 mm high. Medulla white. Lower surface shiny, black, with narrow papillate or naked zone along lobe margins; rhizines moderately dense, mostly simple, black. Apothecia rare, sessile, 1.5–4 mm wide; thalline exciple ecoronate, isidiate. Ascospores ellipsoidal, 9–15 × 5–8 µm. Pycnidia not seen. CHEMISTRY: cortex K+ yellow; medulla K+ yellow then red, C-, P+ orange; containing atranorin, chloroatranorin, salazinic acid (major) and consalazinic acid. |  |
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| Relatively common, pantropical, found in coastal rainforests in Qld and northern N.S.W.; also at Lord Howe Is. and Norfolk Is. Common in open secondary forests in Central and South America, Africa, India, Nepal, Taiwan, West Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Grows on bark of mangroves and trees, rarely on rock. | ||
| Elix (1994a) | ||
| Checklist Index |
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References |
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