Flavoparmelia soredians

Flavoparmelia soredians is a widely distributed species of foliose lichen in the large family Parmeliaceae.

Flavoparmelia soredians
growing on a log in Lourinhã, Portugal
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Parmeliaceae
Genus: Flavoparmelia
Species:
F. soredians
Binomial name
Flavoparmelia soredians
(Nyl.) Hale (1986)
Synonyms[1]
  • Parmelia soredians Nyl. (1872)
  • Parmelia caperata var. soredians (Nyl.) Hillmann (1936)
  • Parmelia conspersa var. soredians (Nyl.) Boistel (1903)
  • Pseudoparmelia soredians (Nyl.) Hale (1974)

In the late 1990s, an increase in the frequency of Flavoparmelia soredians was noted in the Netherlands, which, until then, occurred rarely in the country. This population increase followed a decrease in the levels of the pollutant sulphur dioxide. Punctelia borreri and Flavoparmelia caperata were two other foliose species that experienced a similar increase in regional frequency during this time.[2]

Taxonomy

The lichen was first formally described by Finnish lichenologist William Nylander in 1872 as Parmelia soredians.[3] Mason Hale transferred it to the genus Pseudoparmelia in 1974. It was later one of 17 species he transferred to Flavoparmelia in 1986.[4]

References
  1. "Synonymy: Flavoparmelia soredians (Nyl.) Hale, Mycotaxon 25(2): 605 (1986)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  2. Spier, L.; van Herk, C.M. (1997). "Recent increase of Parmelia borreri in the Netherlands". Lichenologist. 29 (4): 390–393. doi:10.1017/S0024282997000467.
  3. Nylander, W. (1872). "Observata lichenologia in Pyranaeis orientalibus" [Observations on lichenology in the Eastern Pyranean]. Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie (in Latin). 6: 259.
  4. Hale, M.E. 1986. "Flavoparmelia, a new genus in the lichen family Parmeliaceae (Ascomycotina)". Mycotaxon. 25 (2): 603–605.


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