About Melanohalea elegantula (Zahlbr.) O.Blanco, A.Crespo, Divakar, Essl., D.Hawksw. & Lumbsch
Melanohalea elegantula, commonly called the elegant camouflage lichen, is a species of foliose lichen belonging to the family Parmeliaceae. It was first formally described by Alexander Zahlbruckner in 1894, under the name Parmelia aspidota var. elegantula. Hungarian lichenologist Ödön Szatala raised this taxon to full species status as Parmelia elegantula in 1930. Theodore Esslinger moved the species to the genus Melanelia in 1978. It was finally transferred to the newly defined genus Melanohalea in 2004.
