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Pseudephebe
Sign in to savePseudephebe is a genus of fruticose lichens in the family Parmeliaceae. It contains three species that grow on rocks.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassLecanoromycetes
- OrderLecanorales
- FamilyParmeliaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 52
- With media
- 11
- Family
- Parmeliaceae
- Collections
- COLO, MEL, DUKE, UC, TROM, ASU
- Recorded in
- United States, Australia, Chile, Norway, Antarctica, Argentina, AntáRtida, Canada
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Parmeliaceae
- Image
- Pseudephebe minuscula - Flickr - pellaea.jpg
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- taxon name
- Pseudephebe
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxonomic type
- Pseudephebe pubescens
- taxon common name
- blackcurly lichen
- Commons category
- Pseudephebe
- taxon author citation
- M. Choisy
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Taxonomy
- Description
- Habitat and distribution
- Species
- References
Pseudephebe is a genus of fruticose lichens in the family Parmeliaceae. It contains three species that grow on rocks.
==Taxonomy== Pseudephebe was circumscribed by French lichenologist Maurice Choisy in 1930. Molecular phylogenetic work published in 2016 showed that the genus is monophyletic, and within the alectorioid clade of the family Parmeliaceae. This clade includes the genera Alectoria, Bryocaulon, Bryoria, and Nodobryoria. P. mariensis was added to the genus in 2019, transferred from the genus Bryoria. Although Boluda and colleagues considered this to be synonymous with P. minuscula, Fryday and colleagues "consider the distinct pseudocyphellae, detectable norstictic acid, thick cortex and the unique propagule system of the Falklands collections as sufficient to provisionally maintain it as a distinct species."
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