Lepraria lobificans Nyl.
Details
Details
Lepraria lobificans Nyl., Flora 56: 196 (1873)
Lepraria lobificans Nyl.
Biostatus
Absent
New Zealand
Political Region
P.J. de Lange (pers. comm. 1/3/2017): Lendemer (2013) states that the current broad concept of Lepraria lobificans is incorrect, and that at least for North America (and possibly the Pacific Basin - as they discuss Fiji) Lepraria the name is misapplied. In that area the Lepraria that had been referred to by the name L. lobificans they now refer to L. finkii. Lepraria finkii they note is best recognised by the placodioid thallus and production of atranorin, zeorin, and stictic acid . Lendemer (2013) notes that Lepraria finkii is best distinguished from L. lobificans s.s. by the presence of zeorin but he does not discuss L. lobificans further presumably because it is not in North America (i.e. there is no description of the species and it is not keyed out), and his taxonomic treatment of L. lobificans is given as a 'foot note' in which he synonymizes L. santosii (as a junior heterotypic synonym) into it.
Nomenclature
Nyl.
Nyl.
1873
196
ICN
Lepraria lobificans Nyl.
species
Lepraria lobificans
Classification
Taxonomic concepts
Historic biostatus
Collections
Notes
editorial
Material previously named either as L. lobificans or L. finki is likely to be either L. ulrikii or L. neozealandica. The 2021 study was based on only a very few specimens [and no loans from New Zealand herbaria].
Dan Blanchon, pers. comm. after publication of paper by Barcenas-Peña et al. (2021).
Metadata
4feca318-b6f0-4417-b0fc-e889b5c5fca4
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
1 March 2017
