Xanthoparmelia teydea

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lecanorales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Lecanoromycetes Subclassis: Lecanoromycetidae Ordo: Lecanorales

Familia: Parmeliaceae
Subfamilia: Parmelioideae
Genus: Xanthoparmelia
Species: Xanthoparmelia teydea

Name

Xanthoparmelia teydea Pérez-Varg., Hern.-Padr. & Elix, 2010

Type: SPAIN. Tenerife Island: "El Teide" National Park, "Sobre el Mirador de Fuente de Mesa", UTM: 344366/3134162, 1975 m, on basaltic rocks, Jul 2007, C. Hdez-Padrón, P. L. Pérez de Paz & I. Pérez-Vargas (holotype: TFC LICH 8653; isotypes: CANB, TFC LICH)

Etymology: The specific epithet teydea is derived from the name of the Mountain where this species was collected.

Habitat and distribution: Xanthoparmelia teydea occurs on solid basaltic rocks, in "retamar" (a shrub-like community of the high mountains of the Canary Islands with Spartocytisus supranubius), Pterocephalus lasiopermus and with pine (Pinus canariensis).

References

• Pérez-Vargas, I.; Hernández-Padrón, C.; Pérez de Paz, P.L. and Elix, J.A. (2010) Xanthoparmelia teydea, a new brown Xanthoparmelia (Parmeliaceae) from the Canary Islands. The Bryologist 113(1): 51–54. (DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-113.1.51)   (RLL List # 218 / Rec.# 32132 - Recent Literature on Lichens)   (Black-and-white photo of X. teydea: p. 52, fig. 1)