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A new species of Pyrgillus from India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2012

Kirshna Pal SINGH  and
Pushpi SINGH
Kirshna Pal SINGH
Affiliation:
Botanical Survey of India, Central Regional Centre, Allahabad–211 002, India. Email: krishna.p.singh@gmail.com
Pushpi SINGH
Affiliation:
Botanical Survey of India, Central Regional Centre, Allahabad–211 002, India. Email: krishna.p.singh@gmail.com
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Abstract

Pyrgillus tibellii, a new lichen species, is described from India. It is characterized by mazaediate, perithecioid ascomata, an excipular margin with an orange reddish pruinose rim reacting K+ reddish violet, and large, 3-septate ascospores.

Keywords

calicioidlichen taxonomymazaedioidPyrenulaceae
Type
Research Article
Information
The Lichenologist , Volume 44 , Issue 6 , November 2012 , pp. 773 - 776
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 2012

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