Melanohalea trabeculata

Melanohalea trabeculata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Lecanorales
Family:	Parmeliaceae
Genus:	Melanohalea
Species:	M. trabeculata
Binomial name
Melanohalea trabeculata (Ahti) O.Blanco, A.Crespo, Divakar, Essl., D.Hawksw. & Lumbsch (2004)
Synonyms[1]
Parmelia trabeculata Ahti (1966) Melanelia trabeculata (Ahti) Essl. (1978)

Melanohalea trabeculata is a species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. It was first formally described by Finnish lichenologist Teuvo Ahti in 1966 as Parmelia trabeculata.[2] Ted Esslinger transferred the species to the new genus Melanelia in 1978, which he circumscribed to contain the brown parmeliae species.[3] In 2004, it was moved to the newly circumscribed genus Melanohalea.[4]

Ahti collected the type in the Cochrane District of Ontario, Canada, on the west end of Martison Lake. There he found it growing on the trunk of a large willow tree on the lake shore. He suggested that it is a strictly North American species with a transcontinental boreal range.[2]

References

1. "Synonymy: Melanohalea trabeculata (Ahti) O. Blanco, A. Crespo, Divakar, Essl., D. Hawksw. & Lumbsch". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
2. Ahti, T. (1966). Parmelia olivacea and the allied non-isidiate and non-sorediate corticolous lichens in the northern hemisphere. Acta Botanica Fennica. Vol. 70. Helsinki: Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica. p. 54.
3. Esslinger, Theodore L. (1978). "A new status for the brown Parmeliae". Mycotaxon. 7 (1): 45–54.
4. Blanco, Oscar; Crespo, Ana; Divakar, Pradeep K.; Esslinger, Theodore L.; Hawksworth, David L.; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2004). "Melanelixia and Melanohalea, two new genera segregated from Melanelia (Parmeliaceae) based on molecular and morphological data". Mycological Research. 108 (8): 873–884. doi:10.1017/S0953756204000723. PMID 15449592.