Canoparmelia crozalsiana (de Lesd.) Elix & Hale

Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Nash T.H. Data set reviewer(s): Nash T.H.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted. Taxonomic rank: species. Canoparmelia. Synonyms: Pseudoparmelia crozalsiana (B. de Lesd.) Hale; Parmeliaceae Zenker (1827); Lecanorineae; Lecanorales.

Type Information: Type: Parmelia crozalsiana B. de Lesd.

Taxonomic Literature: Hale 1976 Hale & Elix 1986.

Biogeography: Northern hemispheric; Mediterranean and neotropical; montane. Continent: Africa, Europe, Northern America, and Southern America. Checklist records: Mexico, Sonoran Desert, United States and Canada (continental), and Venezuela.

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; corticolous; substrate non-calciferous.

Thallus: Foliose, subdivided into main parts, and secondary or without secondary parts, sub irregular, continuous throughout, lobed; lobes elongate, horizontal; plane; branches applanate (moderately flattened); bifacial; not segmented. Thallus Size and Differentiation: 3-6-9 cm in diameter; main branches basally not constricted; apex rounded. Upper Surface: Grey, plane, matt; not fissurate; not foveate; convoluted; without patches; pruinose, pruina patchy; not pseudocyphellate; not wrinkled; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate; without isidiomorphs; not papillate, not pustulate; sorediate; soralia broad, white, laminal, on folds, semicapitate, erose, prominent, confluent, but not fusing or fusing, emarginate, soredia farinose; not tuberculate; not lobulate. Lower Surface: Present, black, black in the centre, brown along the margin; attached by holdfasts; not cyphellate; not wrinkled; rhizinate; rhizines moderately abundant, with a narrow non-rhizinate margin, black, not branched; not tuberculate.

Hydrochasic Thallus Movement: Not performing hygrochasic thallus movement.

Upper Cortex: Double-layered. Medulla: Single-layered.

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed.

Secondary Metabolites: Present; only in the upper part of the cortex, throughout the cortex, or throughout the thallus medulla, atranorin, constictic acid, or stictic acid, metabolite(s) of unresolved identity: present.

Spot Tests: Cortex: KC + deep yellow; medulla: K + orange, C –, KC –, PD + red.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)