Flavoparmelia caperata (L.) Hale

Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Nash T.H. (00-02-09). Data set reviewer(s): Nash T.H.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted. Taxonomic rank: species. Flavoparmelia. Synonyms: Parmelia caperata (L.) Ach.; Parmeliaceae Zenker (1827); Lecanorineae; Lecanorales.

Type Information: Type: Lichen caperata L.

Taxonomic Literature: Hale 1986.

Biogeography: Northern hemispheric; boreal, Mediterranean, and cosmopolitan; montane. Continent: Asia-Temperate, Australasia, Northern America, and Southern America. Checklist records: Australia, Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Iberic Peninsula, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Sonoran Desert, Sweden and Norway, and United States and Canada (continental).

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

Thallus: Foliose, subdivided into main parts, sub irregular, continuous throughout, lobed; lobes elongate, horizontal; rounded at the front; plane; branches applanate (moderately flattened); bifacial; not segmented. Thallus Size and Differentiation: 2-6-10 cm in diameter; main branches basally not constricted; apex rounded. Upper Surface: Lime green, plane, matt or glossy (shiny), smooth; not fissurate; not foveate; not convoluted; immaculate; without patches; epruinose; not pseudocyphellate; wrinkled; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate; without isidiomorphs; not papillate, not pustulate; sorediate; soralia broad, white, laminal, erose, prominent, slightly excavated, confluent, but not fusing or fusing, 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 broad non-rhizinate margin, black, not branched; not tuberculate.

Hydrochasic Thallus Movement: Not performing hygrochasic thallus movement.

Upper Cortex: Double-layered.

Reproduction Strategy: With sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid, forming all across the thallus surface, all across the surface, sparse. Margin: Crenulate, epruinose; without pseudocyphellae pseudocyphellae; not ciliate; not hirsute. Disk: Brown.

Asci: Dehiscence lecanoralean.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed.

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

Spot Tests: Cortex: KC – medulla: K –, C –, KC –, PD + red.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)