Lepidocollema wainioi
Lepidocollema wainioi is a species of lichen in the family Pannariaceae. It is known from southeast Asia. Taxonomy. This lichen was originally formally described by Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Wainio as "Pannaria sorediata", based on material collected from the Philippines. However, Wainio was unaware that this name had already been used for another taxon by Charles Knight in 1882, and so the name "Pannaria sorediata" was an illegitimate homonym, and therefore, not validly published. Austrian botanist Alexander Zahlbruckner, in his 1925 work "Catalogus Lichenum Universalis", renamed the lichen in honour of Wainio, and it then became known as  Pannaria wainioi . Per Magnus Jørgensen transferred the species to the genus "Parmeliella" in 2003. In 2014, the family Pannariaceae was revised with the aid of modern molecular phylogenetics, and "Parmeliella wainioi" was one of 23 tropical species transferred into the formerly monotypic genus "Lepidocollema". Description. The lichen has a thallus that ranges from squamulose (covered with minute scales) to foliose (leafy) with lobes that are somewhat linear to linear at the margin. Farinose (mealy) soredia are present at the lobes along the margin. The lower surface of the thallus has brown to black rhizines. Habitat and distribution. "Lepidocollema wainioi" was  originally described from collections made in the Philippines. It was also reported from Koh Kut Island (Thailand) in 2016, where it was found growing in an "Avicennia"-"Sonneratia" mangrove zone.