Follmann G. & Schulz M.
(1993):
Comparative studies on two Chilean populations of Roccellinastrum epiphyllum (Ascolichenes). A contribution to the knowledge of foliicolous lichens,
Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory,
73: 221-230
Little is known about the distribution, requirements, and relationships of the byssaceous, mainly South American ascolichen genus Roccellinastrum, tentatively placed in the family Chrysotrichaceae by Follmann (1967), in the Micareaceae by Poelt (1974), in the Lecideaceae by Henssen, Vobis, and Renner (1982), and finally assigned by Hafellner (1984) to its own lecanoralean family, Roccellinastraceae. It comprises a series of highly specialized epiphytes, rarely recollected and scarcely represented …
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