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13. Medulla KOH-, UV+ bright blue white (alectoronic acid); isidia often ciliate;<br />
south to Lake County........................................................................................................................ P. mellissii (Dodge) Hale<br />
2. Thallus sorediate or neither sorediate nor isidiate................................................................................................................................ 15<br />
15. Thallus sorediate ............................................................................................................................................................................. 16<br />
16. Medulla KOH-, UV+ bright blue white (alectoronic acid); cortex not maculate;<br />
common throughout Florida ............................................................................................................ P. rampoddense (Nyl.) Hale<br />
16. Medulla KOH+ yellow (stictic acid agg.); cortex maculate;<br />
common throughout Florida ......................................................................................................P. hypoleucinum (Steiner) Hale<br />
15. Thallus not sorediate....................................................................................................................................................................... 17<br />
17. Cortex maculate; medulla PD+ yellow (norstictic acid) or PD-................................................................................................. 18<br />
18. Norstictic acid only present (rarely acid deficient);<br />
south to Highlands County ....................................................................................................P. perforatum (Jacq.) Massal<br />
18. Alectoronic acid with or without norstictic acid present;<br />
common, throughout Florida ..........................................................................................................P. rigidum (Lynge) Hale<br />
17. Cortex not maculate; medulla PD+ red (protocetraric acid); conidia rod-shaped;<br />
throughout Florida .................................................................................................................... P. michauxianum (Zahlbr.) Hale<br />
PSEUDOPARMELIA Lynge<br />
Only the single species P. sphaerospora (Nyl.) Hale is known from Florida.<br />
PUNCTELIA Krog<br />
Only the single species P. rudecta (Ach.) Krog is known from Florida.<br />
RELICINA (Hale & Kurok.) Hale<br />
1. Thallus isidiate; medulla KOH+ red (norstictic/salazinic acid agg.);<br />
Baker County, reported by Moore, not seen by me, but recently collected<br />
at Broxton Rocks, Coffee county, Georgia..................................................................................................... R. abstrusa (Vainio) Hale<br />
1. Thallus not isidiate or sorediate; medulla KOH-, PD+ red (fumarprotocetraric acid agg.);<br />
Monroe County (Keys)............................................................................................................................ R. eximbricata (Gyelnik) Hale<br />
RIMELIA Hale & Fletcher<br />
1. Thallus sorediate; throughout Florida .........................................................................................R. reticulata (Taylor) Hale & Fletcher<br />
1. Thallus isidiate; south to Polk County............................................................................... R. subisidiosa (Müll. Arg.) Hale & Fletcher<br />
RIMELIELLA Kurokawa<br />
1. Norlobaridone present; Bradford County........................................................................................R. subtinctoria (Zahlbr.) Kurok.<br />
1. Norlobaridone absent; Bradford and Wakulla counties ......................................................R. neotropica (Kurok. & Hale) Kurok.<br />
TUCKERMANOPSIS Gyelnik<br />
Only T. fendleri (Nyl.) Hale occurs in Florida. Tuckermanopsis viridis has been removed to Vulpicida. See key to genera.<br />
USNEA Dill. ex Adanson<br />
1. Cortex, medulla or axis red or pink ......................................................................................................................................................... 2<br />
2. Cortex not red; medulla or axis red or pink.......................................................................................................................................... 3<br />
3. Main axes hollow; medulla red or pink............................................................................................................................................. 4<br />
4. Medulla usually red; norstictic acid present; sorediate-isidiate; south to<br />
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