Fuscopannaria leucosticta

Fuscopannaria leucosticta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Peltigerales
Family: Pannariaceae
Genus: Fuscopannaria
Species:
F. leucosticta
Binomial name
Fuscopannaria leucosticta
Synonyms[1]
  • Parmelia leucosticta Tuck. ex E.Michener (1853)
  • Pannaria craspedia var. leucosticta (Tuck. ex E.Michener) Trevis. (1869)
  • Pannaria lepidiota subsp. leucosticta (Tuck. ex E.Michener) Nyl. (1869)
  • Pannaria leucosticta (Tuck. ex E.Michener) Nyl. (1859)
  • Pannularia leucosticta (Tuck. ex E.Michener) Stizenb. (1887)

Fuscopannaria leucosticta, commonly known as the rimmed shingle lichen, is a species of lichen in the family Pannariaceae. It has a squamulose (scaley) thallus that lacks soredia and isidia (vegetative propagules), but has abundant apothecia (spore-bearing structures) with distinct white rims. Although its main centres of distribution are eastern North America and southeast Asia, where it grows in damp forests, it has been reported from various other high-altitude, humid locations.

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