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Hypotrachyna Indica
''Hypotrachyna indica'' is a little-known species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. Found in India, it was species description, described as new to science in 2011. The lichen forms small, leaf-like growths up to 5 cm across with greenish-grey surfaces marked by conspicuous white spots and small . It grows on the bark of conifer trees in the high-elevation montane forests of India's Nilgiri Hills at around 2,600 metres elevation. Taxonomy ''Hypotrachyna indica'' was species description, formally described in 2014 by Pradeep Divakar, Helge Thorsten Lumbsch, H. Thorsten Lumbsch, Dalip Upreti and Ana Crespo; the holotype was collected on the trunk of a conifer in the Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu. The specific epithet refers to the country where the type material was collected. Description The thallus of ''Hypotrachyna indica'' is corticolous lichen, corticolous (growing on bark), tightly attached to its substrate (biology), substrate, and up to about 5 cm acro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helge Thorsten Lumbsch
Helge Thorsten Lumbsch (born 1964) is a German-born lichenology, lichenologist living in the United States. His research interests include the phylogeny, taxonomy (biology), taxonomy, and phylogeography of lichen-forming fungi; lichen diversity; lichen chemistry and chemotaxonomy. He is the Associate Curator and Head of Cryptogams and Chair of the Department of Botany at the Field Museum of Natural History. Biography Lumbsch was born in Frankfurt in 1964. Interested in lichens already as a schoolboy, he studied natural sciences at the University of Marburg, under the tutelage of Aino Henssen. He received his diploma in 1989, with a dissertation titled ''Ontogenetisch-systematische Studien der Trapeliaceae und verwandter Familien (Lichenisierte Ascomyceten)'' ("Ontogenic-systematic studies of the Trapeliaceae and related families (lichenized ascomycetes)"). After Henssen's retirement in 1990, he transferred to the University of Duisburg-Essen, University in Essen, where he worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |