Hale M.E., Jr & Kurokawa S.
(1962):
Parmelia species first described from the British Isles,
Lichenologist,
2(1): 1-5
There are in the literature at least 13 species of Parmelia first described from the British Isles, of which 10 are now recognised as valid. In the course of a monographic revision of Parmelia we have had occasion to accumulate some pertinent data on the nomenclature and world distribution of these species. It is quite remarkable that all of them excepting P. taylorensis Mitchell have very wide distributions outside the British Isles. Some of them have been unwittingly described later from tropical …
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