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Aspicilia digitata sp. nov., a new vagrant lichen from Kyrgyzstan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2010

Mohammad SOHRABI ,
Teuvo AHTI  and
Birgit LITTERSKI
Mohammad SOHRABI
Affiliation:
Botanical Garden and Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, P. O. Box 7, FI-00014 Helsinki University, Finland. Email: mohammad.sohrabi@helsinki.fi Plant Biology, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, P. O. Box 65, FI-00014 Helsinki University, Finland and Department of Plant Science, University of Tabriz, 51666, Tabriz, Iran.
Teuvo AHTI
Affiliation:
Botanical Garden and Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, P. O. Box 7, FI-00014 Helsinki University, Finland. Email: mohammad.sohrabi@helsinki.fi
Birgit LITTERSKI
Affiliation:
Rudolf-Petershagen-Allee 12, D-17489 Greifswald, Germany.
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Abstract

A new lichen species, Aspicilia digitata Sohrabi & Litterski, is described and illustrated. It differs from the Eurasian and American A. fruticulosa and A. hispida by having a more or less spherical thallus, a very intricate structure of finger-like, cylindrical branchlets and black spots on the tips of the branchlets. Aspicilia digitata is a terricolous vagrant species found at high altitudes in the Tian-Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan. It is not known in the fertile condition and presumably reproduces by fragmentation. Molecular comparisons with other related species are provided.

Keywords

Central AsiaITSmanna lichennew species
Type
Research Article
Information
The Lichenologist , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , January 2011 , pp. 39 - 46
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 2010

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