Phyllopsora breviuscula (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 breviuscula (Nyl.) Muell. Arg.

Description.

Timdal and Krog (2001), Elix (2009).

Distribution.

Pantropical ( Brako 1991, as P. parvifolia var. breviuscula ; Timdal and Krog 2001; Elix 2009).

Remarks.

Paleotropical material of this species (Fig. 2B) tends to be more narrow-lobed and ascending than Neotropical material. Species delimitation analyses by Kistenich et al. (in press) show that the taxon could be split into three or four entities, but as all sequenced specimens fell into one well-supported clade, and morphologically intermediate specimens exist, we still treat the taxon as one variable species. It is the phylogenetic sister to P. mauritiana (Fig. 1). The species is new to New Caledonia, The Philippines, and Vietnam.