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Punctelia eganii

Punctelia eganii is a species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. It was described as a new species in 2011 by Brendan Hodkinson and James Lendemer. It is named in honor of Robert S. Egan, U.S. lichenologist and professor of biology, who collected the type specimen. The lichen is morphologically identical to Punctelia rudecta, differing only in the production of the secondary metabolite lichexanthone, which was previously unknown in the genus Punctelia. The presence of...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 463918.