Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-m6dg7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-04T18:58:11.627Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Nimisia deusta, the correct name for N. fuegiae, with additional notes on morphology, chemical composition, and distribution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2005

Alan M. FRYDAY
Alan M. FRYDAY
Affiliation:
Herbarium, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1312, USA
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Nimisia deusta, based on Parmelia enteromorpha var. deusta, is shown to be the correct name for the species currently known as N. fuegiae. Original material collected by J. D. Hooker in 1842, and collections made by Henry Imshaug between 1968 and 1971, have shown that the species is more widely distributed than previously reported, being known throughout the southern tip of South America (Argentina: Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, Isla de los Estados; Chile: Cape Horn Islands; Falkland Islands), that it has a uniform secondary metabolite chemistry of fumarprotocetraric acid in the upper medulla (not lacking lichen substances as previously reported), and that it is not uniformly black but has a partly pale brown upper cortex.

Keywords

ArgentinaCetrariaChileFalkland IslandsHimantormiaParmeliaceae
Type
Research Article
Information
The Lichenologist , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , July 2005 , pp. 313 - 319
Copyright
© British Lichen Society 2005

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)