Zeora strobilina
| Zeora strobilina | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Lecanorales |
| Family: | Lecanoraceae |
| Genus: | Zeora |
| Species: | Z. strobilina
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| Binomial name | |
| Zeora strobilina (Spreng.) L.M.Weber & Ivanovich (2025)
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Zeora strobilina, also known as the mealy rim lichen, is a species of crustose lichen in the family Lecanoraceae. It was originally described as Parmelia strobilina by German botanist Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel in 1827.[3] The species was long treated in Lecanora, but was later transferred to Zeora when that genus was resurrected for the former Lecanora symmicta group in 2025.[4] It is distributed across North America and the Mediterranean region, and has also become established in South America and the Galápagos.[5] It can be distinguished from other closely related species, including Z. confusa, by the presence of the polyphenolic compound decarboxysquamatic acid in thin-layer chromatography.[6]
References
- ^ NatureServe. "Lecanora strobilina". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
- ^ "GSD Species Synonymy. Current Name: Zeora strobilina (Spreng.) L.M. Weber & Ivanovich, in Ivanovich-Hichins, Weber, Li, Leavitt, Muggia, Palice, Pérez-Ortega, Sohrabi & Printzen, Lichenologist 57: 300 (2025)". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
- ^ Sprengel, C. (1827). Caroli Linnaei systema vegetabilium (in Latin). Göttingen, Sweden: Sumtibus Librariae Dieterichianae. p. 300.
- ^ Ivanovich-Hichins, Cristóbal; Weber, Lilith; Li, Lijuan; Leavitt, Steven D.; Muggia, Lucia; Palice, Zdenek; Pérez-Ortega, Sergio; Sohrabi, Mohammad; Printzen, Christian (2025). "New phylogenetic insights into the lichen genus Lecanora s. lat. (Lecanoraceae, Ascomycota): resurrection of the genera Glaucomaria, Straminella and Zeora". The Lichenologist. 57 (6): 278–303. doi:10.1017/S0024282925101321. hdl:10261/417443.
- ^ Bungartz, Frank; Elix, John A.; Printzen, Christian (2020). "Lecanoroid lichens in the Galapagos Islands: the genera Lecanora, Protoparmeliopsis, and Vainionora". Phytotaxa. 431 (1). doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.431.1.1.
- ^ Nash, T.H. III; Ryan, B.D; Gries, C.; Bungartz, F.; Diedrich, P. (2004). Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert, Vol. 2. Lichens Unlimited. ISBN 0971675910.