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2). IMSHAUG (1957) listed one additional Phyllopsora species, P. cryptocarpa
Riddle, which was transferred to Fellhanera Vĕzda by BRAKO (1989) and is not
treated here, and one additional Psorella species, P. triptophyllina (Nyl.) Zahlbr.,
which is here regarded as belonging in Eschatogonia Trevis. (cf. TIMDAL 2008a).
Table 1. Phyllopsora taxa described from the West Indies.
Basionym Country/Island Current name
Biatora pyrrhomelaena Tuck. Cuba P. pyrrhomelaena
Lecidea breviuscula Nyl. Cuba P. breviuscula
L. breviuscula var. phaeobyssina Nyl. Guadeloupe P. phaeobyssina
L. canoumbrina Vain. Trinidad P. canoumbrina
L. cognata Nyl. Cuba P. cognata
L. corallina var. schizophylloides Vain. St. Vincent P. minor
L. furfuracea var. biatorina Vain. Guadeloupe unknown
L. glabella Nyl. Cuba P. microsperma
L. glabriuscula Nyl. Cuba P. orchroxantha
L. granulifera Fink Puerto Rico P. canoumbrina
L. intermediella Nyl. Cuba P. intermediella
L. leucophyllina Nyl. Cuba P. leucophyllina
L. longiuscula Nyl. Cuba P. longiuscula
L. microphyllina Nyl. Cuba P. microphyllina
L. microphyllina var. subgranulosa Tuck. Cuba P. pertexta
L. parvifolia f. corallina Tuck. Cuba P. furfuracea chemotype 2
L. parvifolia f. subgranulosa Tuck. Cuba P. canoumbrina
L. parvifoliella Nyl. Cuba P. parvifoliella
L. pertexta Nyl. Cuba P. pertexta
L. subbreviuscula Nyl. Cuba P. parvifolia
Phyllopsora cryptocarpa Riddle Cuba Fellhanera cryptocarpa
P. parvifolia var. glauca de Lesd. Cuba P. porphyromelaena
P. parvifolia var. hirtella de Lesd. Cuba P. parvifolia
In BRAKO’s (1989, 1991) revision of the neotropical species of Phyllopsora, 18
species and 8 varieties were accepted, of which 13 species and 6 varieties were
recorded from the West Indies (Tab. 2). My own study of Phyllopsora in Peru
(TIMDAL 2008b), however, revealed 20 species in that country alone. Although
my concept of the genus is broader than that of Brako’s, e.g., including most of
the species placed in Psorella in ZAHLBRUCKNER (1926–1927), it soon became
apparent that an examination of Brako's material was needed in order to reevaluate
the circumscription of the West Indian taxa. Hence additional material
was borrowed from several herbaria and I have now studied most of the
specimens of Phyllopsora reported from the West Indies. Several recent
collections not examined by Brako were also included in this study.
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