Parmeliella triptophylloides

Parmeliella triptophylloides is a species of corticolous lichen in the family Pannariaceae. Found in east Africa, it was formally described as a new species in 2003 by Norwegian lichenologist Per Magnus Jørgensen. The type specimen was collected by Dutch mycologist Rudolf Arnold Maas Geesteranus in 1949, from the Cherang'any Hills at an elevation of. In addition to the type locality, it has also been recorded from the Luhangalo Plateau in Tanzania.
Parmeliella triptophylloides has a thallus that is both crustose and squamulose, and in maturity breaks into areoles. The thallus rests upon a blackish, crust-like prothallus. The squamules are rounded to elongated, smooth and greyish-brown, measuring up to wide. Greyish-blue isidia covers the squamules and obscure the thallus. The lichen is somewhat similar in morphology to Parmeliella triptophylla; the specific epithet triptophylloides refers to this resemblance.