Emmanuelia lobulifera
Emmanuelia lobulifera is a species of foliose lichen in the familt Peltigeraceae. It has a trebouxioid alga as the primary.. E. lobulifera can be distinguished from other species in the genus by differences in positions and shape of, and by its geographic distribution.
Habitat and distribution
The primary habitat for Emmanuelia lobulifera is the Southeastern United States, living on hardwood trees within coastal plains, found in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.
Description
The thallus is up to 8 cm in diameter, with small overlapping, each 1 mm to 5mm wide. The upper surface is light green to brownish grey and the underside is smooth, whitish, and sparsely. The ends of the lobes are short and rounded and may be joined together with plain margins. The scale-shaped are typically between ~0.5 mm and 1 mm in diameter and cover the thallus surface except at the margins; they are obliquely oriented, rarely branching at the base.