Menegazzia subsimilis

Menegazzia subsimilis is a species of lichen in the family Parmeliaceae It is found scattered across the world, including Oceania (Hawaii, Solomon Islands), Asia (Japan, Papua New Guinea, Russia), Europe (Austria, Germany, Portugal), South America (Ecuador, Peru), the Caribbean (Dominican Republic, Jamaica) and North America (Canada, USA).[2] It has recently been recorded for the first times in Tibet (2005),[3] in the British Isles,[4] and in Malaysia and Indonesia (2007).[5]

Menegazzia subsimilis
Found in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Parmeliaceae
Genus: Menegazzia
Species:
M. subsimilis
Binomial name
Menegazzia subsimilis
(H.Magn.) R.Sant. (1942)
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Parmelia subsimilis H.Magn.
  • Menegazzia dissecta (Rass.) Hafellner

The lichen was originally described as Parmelia subsimilis by Swedish lichenologist Adolf Hugo Magnusson in 1941, based on specimens found in Hawaii.[6] A year later, Rolf Santesson transferred the species to the genus Menegazzia.[7] The species was not reported outside of Hawaii until a 1993 collection from southeast Asia.[8]

See also

References
  1. "Species synonymy: Menegazzia subsimilis". Index Fungorum. CAB International. Archived from the original on 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
  2. Bjerke JW. (2003). "Menegazzia subsimilis, a widespread sorediate lichen". The Lichenologist. 35 (5–6): 393–96. doi:10.1016/j.lichenologist.2003.08.001.
  3. Bjkerke JW, Obermayer W. (2005). "The genus Menegazzia (Parmeliaceae, lichenized Ascomycetes) in the Tibetan region" (PDF). Nova Hedwigia. 81 (3–4): 301–309. doi:10.1127/0029-5035/2005/0081-0301. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
  4. Egan RS. (2006). "Menegazzia subsimilis (H. Magn.) R. Sant. new to the British Isles". British Lichen Society Bulletin. 98: 46.
  5. Bjerke JW, Sipman HJM. (2007). "New species and new records of Menegazzia (Parmeliaceae, lichenized ascomycetes) from Malaysia and Indonesia". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 153 (4): 489–99. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2007.00614.x.
  6. Magnusson AH. (1941). "New species of Cladonia and Parmelia from the Hawaiian Islands". Arkiv för Botanik. 30B (3): 2–9.
  7. Sangtesson R. (1942). "The South American Menegazziae". Arkiv för Botanik. 30A (11): 1–35.
  8. Smith CW. (1993). "Notes on Hawaiian parmeloid lichens". Bryologist. 96 (3): 326–332. doi:10.2307/3243860. JSTOR 3243860.
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