Phyllopsora gossypina (Sw.) Kistenich, Timdal, Bendiksby & S. Ekman

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 gossypina (Sw.) Kistenich, Timdal, Bendiksby & S. Ekman

Description.

Hue (1909).

Distribution.

Apparently pantropical.

Remarks.

The species (Fig. 5C) was included in the genus Crocynia until recently ( Kistenich et al. 2018b), and not originally a part of our taxon sampling; hence the few specimens examined. The accession from Sri Lanka (7201) clusters together with specimens of C. molliuscula (Suppl. material 1: Fig. S1), from which it is morphologically and chemically different. Further specimens need to be investigated to inform about its relationship to C. molliuscula . The species is the phylogenetic sister to P. imshaugii (Fig. 1).