Flavopunctelia

Flavopunctelia is a genus of foliose lichens in the family Parmeliaceae.^[2] The genus contains species that are widespread in temperate and tropical areas.^[3] The genus is characterised by broad, yellow-green lobes, point-like (punctiform) pseudocyphellae on the thallus surface, and bifusiform conidia (i.e., threadlike with a swelling at both ends). All species contain usnic acid as a major secondary chemical in the cortex. Flavopunctelia was originally conceived as a subgenus of Punctelia by Hildur Krog in 1982;^[4] Mason Hale promoted it to generic status in 1984.^[5]

Flavopunctelia
Flavopunctelia soredica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Lecanorales
Family:	Parmeliaceae
Genus:	Flavopunctelia (Krog) Hale (1984)
Type species
Flavopunctelia flaventior (Stirt.) Hale (1984)
Species
F. borrerioides F. darrowii F. flaventior F. lobulata F. praesignis F. soredica
Synonyms[1]
Punctelia subgen. Flavopunctelia Krog (1982)

Species

• Flavopunctelia borrerioides Kurok. (1999)^[6]
• Flavopunctelia darrowii (J.W.Thomson) Hale (1984)
• Flavopunctelia flaventior (Stirt.) Hale (1984)
• Flavopunctelia lobulata Elix & Adler (1987)^[7]
• Flavopunctelia praesignis (Nyl.) Hale (1984)
• Flavopunctelia soredica (Nyl.) Hale (1984)