Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Fungi
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Lecanoromycetes
Subclassis: Lecanoromycetidae
Ordo: Lecanorales
Familia: Lecanoraceae
Genus: Protoparmelia
Species: P. atriseda - P. badia - P. capitata - P. cupreobadia - P. hypotremella - P. isidiata - P. memnonia - P. montagnei - P. nephaea - P. ochrococca - P. oleagina - P. picea - P. ryaniana
Name
Protoparmelia M.Choisy, 1929
Family: Lecanoraceae (Source: Ryan et al., 2004, p. 425)
Note: The Dictionary of the Fungi, 10th edition (2008) puts Protoparmelia in the family, Parmeliaceae.
Type: Protoparmelia badia (Hoffm.) Hafellner
Life habit: Lichenized, sometimes lichenicolous when young.
References
M. Choisy, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 76: 523 (1929)
Choisy, M. (1929) Genres nouveaux pour la lichénologie dans le groupe des Lecanoracées. - Bulletin de la Societé Botanique de France\Bull. Soc. Bot. France 76: 521-527.
Coppins, B.J. (1992) Protoparmelia M. Choisy (1929), pp. 501-503 in Purvis, O.W., Coppins, B.J., Hawksworth, D.L., James, P.W. and Moore, D.M. (eds.) The lichen flora of Great Britain and Ireland: Nat. Hist. Mus. Publ.
Foucard, T. (1990) Svenks Skorplavs Flora. Stockholm: Interpublishing; 306 pp.
Hafellner, J. (1984) Studien in Richtung einer natürlicheren Gliederung der Sammelfamilien Lecanoraceae und Lecideaceae. Beih. Nova Hedwigia 79: 241-371.
Miyawaki, H. (1991) Protoparmelia badia in Japan. Hikobia 11: 29-32.
Poelt, J. and Grube, M. (1992) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Flechtenflora des Himalaya V. Die Gattung Protoparmelia Choisy. Nova Hedwigia 55: 3-4.
Poelt, J. and Leuckert, C. (1991) Der Formenkreis von Protoparmelia atriseda (Lichenes, Lecanoraceae) in Europa. Nova Hedwigia 52: 39-64.
Ryan, B.D, Nash III, T.H. and Hafellner, J. (2004) Protoparmelia (pp. 425-430) In: Nash III, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Diederich, P., Gries, C. and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 2. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 742 pages.
van den Boom, P.P.G., Sipman, H.J.M. and Elix, J.A. (2007) Protoparmelia (pp. 392-393) In: Nash III, T.H., Gries, C., and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 3. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 567 pages.
Recent Literature on Lichens and Mattick's Literature Index
USDA Plants Database
Vernacular names
English: Chocolate rim-lichens, Protoparmelia lichens
Nederlands: Spijkerdrager
