Canoparmelia

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title: "Canoparmelia" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["parmeliaceae", "lichen-genera", "lecanorales-genera", "taxa-described-in-1986", "taxa-named-by-mason-hale", "taxa-named-by-john-alan-elix"] description: "Genus of lichens" topic_path: "general/parmeliaceae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoparmelia" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of lichens ::

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Canoparmelia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Parmeliaceae. The widespread genus contains about 35 species. Canoparmelia, a segregate of the parmelioid lichen genus Pseudoparmelia, was circumscribed by John Elix and Mason Hale in 1986.

Description

Canoparmelia lichens have grey or rarely yellow-green thalli containing the secondary chemicals atranorin and chloroatranorin, or rarely usnic acid, in the cortex. The thallus is made of more or less rotund lobes that are 3.0–5.0 mm wide and lack cilia; the medulla is white. The underside of the thallus is black or brown with naked brown margins and simple rhizines of the same colour. Canoparmelia produces small ellipsoid ascospores that measure 10–14 by 6–8 μm. The conidia are fusiform (spindle-shaped) or bifusiform, measuring 7–10 μm long.

Species

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• Canoparmelia alabamensis (Hale & McCull.) Elix (2001)
• Canoparmelia albomaculata C.H.Ribeiro & Marcelli (2002) – Brazil
• Canoparmelia amabilis Heiman & Elix (1999)
• Canoparmelia antedeluvialis (Brusse & Sipman) Elix (1997)
• Canoparmelia aptata (Kremp.) Elix & Hale (1986)
• Canoparmelia austroamericana Adler (1987)
• Canoparmelia caribaea (Hale) Elix & Hale (1986)
• Canoparmelia caroliniana (Nyl.) Elix & Hale (1986)
• Canoparmelia cassa Marcelli & C.H.Ribeiro (2002) – Brazil
• Canoparmelia concrescens (Vain.) Elix & Hale (1986)
• Canoparmelia consanguinea Marcelli, Canêz & Elix (2009) – Brazil
• Canoparmelia corrugativa (Kurok. & Filson) Elix & Hale (1986)
• Canoparmelia cryptochlorophaea (Hale) Elix & Hale (1986)
• Canoparmelia ecaperata (Müll.Arg.) Elix & Hale (1986)
• Canoparmelia epileuca (Hale) Elix & Hale (1986)
• Canoparmelia eruptens (Kurok.) Elix & Hale (1986)
• Canoparmelia herveyensis Elix (1993) – Australia
• Canoparmelia inornata (Hale) Elix & Hale (1986)
• Canoparmelia martinicana (Nyl.) Elix & Hale (1986)
• Canoparmelia nairobiensis (J.Steiner & Zahlbr.) Elix & Hale (1986)
• Canoparmelia nashii Jungbluth & Marcelli (2011)
• Canoparmelia owariensis (Asahina) Elix (1993)
• Canoparmelia pustulescens (Kurok.) Elix (1993)
• Canoparmelia pustulifera Benatti, S.M.Martins, C.Vos & Emily Holt (2017) – Brazil
• Canoparmelia quintarigera Aptroot (1991) – Magagascar
• Canoparmelia rarotongensis Louwhoff & Elix (2000) – Rarotonga
• Canoparmelia raunkiaeri (Vain.) Elix & Hale (1986)
• Canoparmelia rodriguesiana (Hue) Elix (1999)
• Canoparmelia roseoreagens Marcelli, Canêz & Elix (2009) – Brazil
• Canoparmelia rupicola (Lynge) Elix (2001)
• Canoparmelia sanguinea Marcelli, Benatti & Elix (2009) – Brazil
• Canoparmelia somaliensis (Müll.Arg.) Elix & Hale (1986)
• Canoparmelia subroseoreagens Marcelli, Canêz & Elix (2009) – Brazil
• Canoparmelia tamaulipensis T.H.Nash & R.-E.Pérez (2010)
• Canoparmelia terrapapia Elix (1999)
• Canoparmelia texana (Tuck.) Elix & Hale (1986)
• Canoparmelia zambiensis (Hale) Elix & Hale (1986)
• Canoparmelia zimbabwensis (Hale) Elix & Hale (1986)

The taxon once named Canoparmelia amazonica (Nyl.) Elix & Hale (1986) has been analysed molecularly and shown to belong in the genus Parmelinella.

References

References

1. (1987). "A new species of the genus ''Canoparmelia'' from Argentina". Mycotaxon.
2. (1991). "Lichens of Madagascar: new records and species of Parmeliaceae". Cryptogamie Bryologie Lichénologie.
3. (2008). "''Canoparmelia sanguinea'', a new Parmeliaceae from Brazil". Mycotaxon.
4. (2017). "''Canoparmelia pustulifera'', a new species of Parmeliaceae containing perlatolic acid from southern Brazil". Iheringia.
5. (2009). "New Brazilian species of ''Canoparmelia'' with medullary olivetoric, anziaic, and sekikaic complexes". Mycotaxon.
6. (1993). "Progress in the generic delimitation of ''Parmelia'' sensu lato lichens (Ascomycotina: Parmeliaceae) and a synoptic key to the Parmeliaceae". Bryologist.
7. (1993). "New species in the lichen family Parmeliaceae (Ascomycotina) from Australia". Mycotaxon.
8. (1986). "''Canoparmelia'', ''Paraparmelia'' and ''Relicinopsis''. Three new genera in the Parmeliaceae (lichenized Ascomycotina)". Mycotaxon.
9. (1999). "Further new species and new reports in the lichen family Parmeliaceae (Ascomycotina) from South Africa". Mycotaxon.
10. (1999). "A new species of ''Canoparmelia'' from North America (lichenized Ascomycotina, Parmeliaceae)". Mycotaxon.
11. (2002). "Twenty-one new species of Parmeliaceae (lichenized fungi) from southeastern Brazil". Mitteilungen aus dem Institut für Allgemeine Botanik Hamburg.
12. (2011). "Taxonomical novelties in Parmeliaceae". Bibliotheca Lichenologica.
13. (2021). "''Canoparmelia amazonica'', ''Myelochroa lindmanii'' and ''Parmelinella salacinifera'' belong to ''Parmelinella'' (Parmeliaceae)". The Bryologist.
14. (2000). "The Lichens Of Rarotonga, Cook Islands, South Pacific Ocean II: Parmeliaceae". The Lichenologist.
15. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere.

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