Parmelinella

Parmelinella is a genus of lichen belonging to the family Parmeliaceae.[1] The genus was circumscribed in 1987 by John Elix and Mason Hale as a segregate of Parmelina, from which it differs in having larger ascospores and containing salazinic acid.[2]

Parmelinella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Parmeliaceae
Genus: Parmelinella
Elix & Hale (1987)
Type species
Parmelinella wallichiana
(Taylor) Elix & Hale (1987)

Species

  • Parmelinella cinerascens (Lynge) Benatti & Marcelli (2012)
  • Parmelinella inexplicabilis Marcelli & C.H.Ribeiro (2002)
  • Parmelinella manipurensis (Kr.P.Singh) Elix & Hale (1987)
  • Parmelinella mutata (Vain.) Benatti (2014)
  • Parmelinella nimandairana (Zahlbr.) Benatti & Marcelli (2014)
  • Parmelinella salacinifera (Hale) Marcelli & Benatti (2014)
  • Parmelinella simplicior (Hale) Elix & Hale (1987)
  • Parmelinella versiformis (Kremp.) Marcelli (1993)
  • Parmelinella wallichiana (Taylor) Elix & Hale (1987)

References

  1. Lücking, Robert; Hodkinson, Brendan P.; Leavitt, Steven D. (2017). "The 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota–Approaching one thousand genera". The Bryologist. 119 (4): 361–416. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-119.4.361. S2CID 90258634.
  2. Elix, John A.; Hale, Mason E. (1987). "Canomaculina, Myelochroa, Parmelinella, Parmelinopsis and Parmotremopsis, five new genera in the Parmeliaceae (lichenized Ascomycotina)". Mycotaxon. 29: 233–244.


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