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Parmeliella triptophylla
Nomenclature
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Family: PannariaceaeGenus: Parmeliella
SUMMARY
Thallus of minute, indented, rounded or elongate, flat to concave squamules, to 1 mm wide, scattered or contiguous, sometimes overlapping. Hypothallus extending beyond the thallus lobes, conspicuous, wide, smooth, black, giving the thallus at a distance an overall dark appearance. Upper surface of squamules grey-brown, ± shiny, with terete, finger-like, branched, erect or decumbent isidia along the margins, often interspersed with more flattened lobules, sometimes forming a continuous isidiate crust and often completely obscuring the underlying squamules.
Anamorph: no information available.
Teleomorph: ascomata apothecia, to 1 mm diam., infrequent. Disc red-brown to black, true exciple pale. Ascospores 10-17 × 5-8 μm, ellipsoidal, hyaline, the outer spore wall smooth and inner wall uneven, without a perispore or gelatinous sheath.