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Caloplaca amarkantakana, a new species in the Caloplaca sideritis group from India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2006

Yogesh JOSHI
Affiliation:
Lichenology Laboratory, National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow-226007, Uttar Pradesh, India
Dalip K. UPRETI
Affiliation:
Lichenology Laboratory, National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow-226007, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract

Caloplaca amarkantakana Y. Joshi & Upreti, a species closely related to C. pellodella and belonging to the section Sideritis, is described as new to science from India. It is characterized by a ±pruinose lobed olivaceous, grey-brown thallus having a parathecium of isodiametric cells, and by smaller ascospores and conidia.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© British Lichen Society 2006

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