identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
DE1669696553A37DFF6EF9E8FCC07202.text	DE1669696553A37DFF6EF9E8FCC07202.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Parmeliella testacea	<div><p>Description of Parmeliella testacea from the Tamentout Forest:</p> <p>The species has a squamulose to minutely foliose thallus composed of pale chestnut-brown to gray-brown lobes, forming a rosette. It tightly adheres to its substrate with distinct peripheral lobes and its upper surface is fragile (Fig. 4). When wet, the thallus turns dark blue-gray. The thallus is sorediate with dark gray, coarsely granular soredia formed in predominantly marginal, sometimes also laminar, button-shaped soralia. These soralia are initially concolorous with the thallus surface, their soredia sometimes brittle, on a ± uniform surface, which may become coarsely cracked along the margin. The thallus resides on an arachnoid hypothallus, blue-black in color. In the specimens collected in Algeria, apothecia were not observed; the photobiont is Nostoc.</p> <p>Notes: Only a single corticolous specimen of Parmeliella testacea was found in the Tamentout Forest, growing on Q. suber. The species generally appears to be quite rare, and in France its threat status has been assessed according to IUCN red-list criteria as Vulnerable (VU) by Roux et al. (2017). In the past, the species had been reported from England, but it is considered extinct (Cannon et al. 2021).</p> <p>Specimen examined. ALGERIA. Setif Province: Tamentout Forest, Collection Site 5 (36° 30ꞌ 52ꞌꞌN, 5° 44ꞌ 05ꞌꞌE), 961 m altitude, 2021, Belguidoum, A. no. Cl 92 (ABHCH).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DE1669696553A37DFF6EF9E8FCC07202	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Belguidoum, Amina;Lograda, Takia;Ramdani, Messaoud	Belguidoum, Amina, Lograda, Takia, Ramdani, Messaoud (2022): The Lichen Flora on Quercus in the Tamentout Forest of Algeria. Phytotaxa 566 (2): 200-208, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.566.2.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.566.2.4
