Flavopunctelia darrowii

Flavopunctelia darrowii is a species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. It was first formally described as a new species by John Walter Thomson in 1950 as Parmelia darrowi. It is named after American botanist Robert Arthur Darrow.^[1] In 1982, Hildur Krog transferred it to the subgenus Flavopunctelia of her newly circumscribed genus Punctelia, created to contain Parmelia species with punctate (point-like) pseudocyphellae.^[2] Mason Hale raised this subgenus to generic status a couple of years later.^[3]

Flavopunctelia darrowii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Lecanorales
Family:	Parmeliaceae
Genus:	Flavopunctelia
Species:	F. darrowii
Binomial name
Flavopunctelia darrowii (J.W.Thomson) Hale (1984)
Synonyms
Parmelia darrowi J.W.Thomson (1950) Punctelia darrowi (J.W.Thomson) Krog (1982)

The lichen is endemic to the American oak-pine forests of southern Arizona and higher elevations in Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico.^[4]