Platismatia

Platismatia
Platismatia glauca growing on a Nothofagus tree on Isla Navarino, Chile.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Suborder: Lecanorineae
Family: Parmeliaceae
Genus: Platismatia
W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.
Type species
Platismatia glauca
(L.) W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.
Species

P. commixtum
P. erosa
P. formosana
P. glauca
P. herrei
P. interrupta
P. lacunosa
P. norvegica
P. regenerans
P. stenophylla
P. tuckermanii

Platismatia is genus of medium to large foliose lichens with rather crinkled lobes. The genus is widespread and contains 10 species.[1] They resemble many other genera of foliose lichens in the family Parmeliaceae, particularly Parmotrema, Cetrelia, and Asahinea. Most species are found in forests on on the trunks and branches of conifer trees, although some species grow on rocks.[2]

Species of Platismatia can be used to produce an orange-brown, yellow-brown, or brown dye,[3] and at least one species was traditionally used to dye wool in Europe.[4]

Gallery

References

  1. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi. (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 543. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8. 
  2. ^ Brodo, I. M., S. D. Sharnoff, and S. Sharnoff. 2001. Lichens of North America. Yale University Press: New Haven.
  3. ^ Brough, S. G. 1984. Dye characteristics of British Columbia forest lichens. Syesis 17: 81-94.
  4. ^ Uphof, J. C. T. 1959. Dictionary of Economic Plants. Hafner Publishing Co.: New York.

External links

Platismatia in Index Fungorum.