| Menegazzia platytrema | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Lecanorales |
| Family: | Parmeliaceae |
| Genus: | Menegazzia |
| Species: | M. platytrema |
| Binomial name | |
| Menegazzia platytrema | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Menegazzia platytrema is a species of lichen found in Australia. [2]
Menegazzia is a genus of lichenized fungi containing roughly 70 accepted species. The group is sometimes referred to as the tree flutes, honeycombed lichens, or hole-punch lichens. The most obvious morphological feature of the genus is the distinctive perforations spread across the upper side of the thallus. This makes the group easy to recognise, even for those not particularly familiar with lichen identification.
Menegazzia aeneofusca is a species of lichen from South America, New Zealand, and Australia.
Menegazzia confusa is a species of foliose lichen found in Australia. It was formally described as a new species in 1987 by lichenologist Peter James. The type specimen was collected by Gintaras Kantvilas near Lake Leake Road in Tasmania, where it was found growing on the bark of Exocarpos cupressiformis in a sclerophyll forest. It also occurs in Victoria. The lichen is quite similar to Menegazzia platytrema, but typically has more crowded apothecia, and lobes that are shorter and more congested. Menegazzia confusa contains caperatic acid as its primary lichen product, whereas M. platytrema contains stictic acid and related compounds.
Menegazzia dielsii is a species of foliose lichen from New Zealand. It was first formally described by German lichenologist Johannes Hillmann in 1940. Rolf Santesson transferred it to the genus Menegazzia in 1943. It contains several lichen products: atranorin, conpsoromic acid, echinocarpic acid, and psoromic acid.
Menegazzia elongata is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), foliose lichen found in Australia. It was formally described as a new species by lichenologist Peter J. James in 1992. The type specimen was collected by Leif Tibell in Tasmania.
Menegazzia enteroxantha is a species of foliose lichen found in Australia. It was first formally described as a new to science by Swiss botanist Johannes Müller Argoviensis in 1896, as a specis of Parmelia. Rolf Santesson transferred the taxon to genus Menegazzia in 1942.
Menegazzia fumarprotocetrarica is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), foliose lichen found in South America. It was formally described as a new species in 1996 by Mónica Adler and Susana Calvelo. The type specimen was collected by the second author from Bariloche. The species epithet refers to the presence of protocetraric acid, a lichen product that is rare in the genus Menegazzia. The lichen grows on the hard bark of Nothofagus alpina, N. dombeyi, and Araucaria araucana.
Menegazzia grandis is a species of foliose lichen found in Australia. It was described as new to science in 1992.
Menegazzia hypernota is a species of foliose lichen found in Australasia. It was formally described as a new species in 2004 by Jarle Bjerke from specimens collected in New Zealand. The lichen contains fumarprotocetraric acid as the major lichen product in the medulla. Menegazzia hypernota was reported from Tasmania in 2019.
Menegazzia minuta is a rare species of foliose lichen that is endemic to Tasmania, Australia. It was scientifically described as a new species in 1987 by lichenologists Peter James and Gintaras Kantvilas. The type specimen was collected by the second author south of Arthur River, where the lichen was found in a rainforest growing on twigs of leatherwood. The species epithet minuta refers to the small size of its thallus. Menegazzia minuta contains protolichesterinic acid, a lichen product that helps to distinguish it from the similar species Menegazzia eperforata, which instead contains stictic acid and related compounds. In a 2012 publication, Kantvilas called M. minuta "one of Tasmania's rarest lichens", characterised by a "glossy olive-brown thallus of minute, spidery lobes, densely beset with lobule-like isidia".
Menegazzia opuntioides is a species of foliose lichen from southern South America. It was first formally described as a new species in 1889 by Swiss botanist Johannes Müller Argoviensis, as a species of Parmelia. The type specimen was collected in the Strait of Magellan in southern Chile. Rolf Santesson transferred the taxon to the genus Menegazzia in 1942. Menegazzia opuntioides has also been recorded from Argentina.
Menegazzia pertransita is a species of foliose lichen in the large lichen family Parmeliaceae. It is found in New Zealand, Australia, and South America. The lichen was first formally described by Scottish physician and bryologist James Stirton in 1877 as Parmelia pertransita. Swedish lichenologist Rolf Santesson transferred it to the genus Menegazzia in 1942.
Menegazzia stirtonii is a species of foliose lichen found in New Zealand, and Tasmania, Australia.
Menegazzia terebrata is a species of foliose lichen found scattered across many continents, including North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Menegazzia jamesii is a species of lichen found in Australia.
Menegazzia petraea is a rare species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. Found in Australia, the species was described as new to science by Australian lichenologist Gintaras Kantvilas in 2012. The type specimen was collected at the summit of Gog Range, Tasmania at an altitude of 720 m (2,360 ft). Here it was found growing on conglomerate boulders in scrubby heath. The specific epithet petraea not only refers to its saxicolous habitat, but also indirectly hints at the first name of English botanist and lichenologist Peter Wilfred James, who, according to Kantvilas, "has made sigificant contributions to the study of Menegazzia and first noted the unusual chemical composition of this species".
Menegazzia subtestacea is a species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. It is found in Tasmania (Australia), where it grows at high elevations on the twigs and young branches of alpine shrubs.
Menegazzia tarkinea is a rare species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. It occurs in North West Tasmania (Australia).
Menegazzia brattii is a rare species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. It was described as a new species by Gintaras Kantvilas in 2012. The type specimen was collected from the Bras de la Fonderie in the Kerguelen Islands. Here it was found at the summit of coastal cliffs west of Col Demi-Lune. The lichen was growing on the bark of an unidentified tree or shrub. The specific epithet brattii honours Tasmanian lichenologist Geoffrey Charles Bratt, who collected the type specimen in 1971 when he was on a botanical expedition in Kerguelen with Henry Imshaug.
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