| Alectoria imshaugii | |
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Lecanorales |
| Family: | Parmeliaceae |
| Genus: | Alectoria |
| Species: | A. imshaugii
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| Binomial name | |
| Alectoria imshaugii | |
Alectoria imshaugii, commonly known as spiny witches hair, [1] is a species of fruticose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae that occurs in North America. It was described as a new species by the lichenologists Irwin Brodo and David L. Hawksworth in their 1977 monograph on the genus Alectoria. The species epithet honors Henry Andrew Imshaug. [2] The variety venezuelensis, proposed in 1994, occurs in Venezuela. [3]
The Chinese species Alectoria spiculatosa is somewhat similar in appearance to A. imshaugii, but is distinguished by its characteristic sorediate pseudocyphellae and also by having spinules that grow over soralia. [4]
References
- ^ Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2001). Lichens of North America. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 152. ISBN 978-0-300-08249-4.
- ^ Brodo, I.M.; Hawksworth, D.L. (1977). Alectoria and allied genera in North America. Opera Botanica. Vol. 42. p. 59.
- ^ Marcano, V.; Morales, A. (1994). "El género Alectoria Ach. (Ascomicetes liquenizados) en Los Andes de Venezuela". Ernstia (in Spanish). 4 (3–4): 89–100.
- ^ Wang, L.S.; Liu, D.; Shi, H.X.; Zhang, Y.Y.; Ye, X.; Chen, X.L.; Wang, X.Y. (2015). "Alectoria spinosa, a new lichen species from Hengduan Mountains, China". Mycosphere. 6 (2): 159–164. doi: 10.5943/mycosphere/6/2/6.
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