Menegazzia subsimilis

Menegazzia subsimilis
Found in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Phylum:	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

Menegazzia subsimilis is a species of lichen in the family Parmeliaceae It is found scattered across the Northern Hemisphere, 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]

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

• List of Menegazzia species

References

1. ^ "Species synonymy: Menegazzia subsimilis". Index Fungorum. CAB International. http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/SynSpecies.asp?RecordID=368068. Retrieved 2010-04-30. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Bjerke JW. (2003). "Menegazzia subsimilis, a widespread sorediate lichen". Lichenologist 35: 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. http://www.schweizerbart.de/resources/downloads/paper_previews/73058.pdf. 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 Linnaean 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: 326–332. 

External links

• Menegazzia subsimilis in Index Fungorum.