Phyllopsora parvifoliella (Nyl.) Muell . Arg.

Kistenich, Sonja, Bendiksby, Mika, Vairappan, Charles S., Weerakoon, Gothamie, Wijesundara, Siril, Wolseley, Patricia A. & Timdal, Einar, 2019, A regional study of the genus Phyllopsora (Ramalinaceae) in Asia and Melanesia, MycoKeys 53, pp. 23-72 : 23

Phyllopsora parvifoliella (Nyl.) Muell. Arg.

Description.

Timdal (2008b).

Distribution.

Central and South America ( Brako 1991; Timdal 2008b), Asia.

Remarks.

This squamulose, isidiate species contains atranorin and parvifoliellin (Fig. 8C); characters it shares with P. concinna and P. rappiana . The molecular phylogeny (Fig. 1) shows that the three species are not closely related, though; rather P. parvifoliella belongs in a clade together with P. africana , P. ochroxantha , and P. swinscowii . We have sequenced material from Indonesia and Thailand, and here report the species as new to Asia and Melanesia, i.e. from Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Thailand.