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A new species of Trichothelium and new records of Porinaceae from Ecuador

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

P. M. McCarthy
Affiliation:
Australian Biological Resources Study, GPO Box 787, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia.
Z. Palice
Affiliation:
Botanical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic.

Abstract

Trichothelium longisetum sp. nov. (Porinaceae) is described from a rainforest in northeastern Ecuador. It has a non-radiating photobiont, prominent, black perithecia, each with numerous, long-acute to acicular, black setae, and elongate-bacilliform, 9–15-septate ascospores. Remarkably, this lichen grows on wood rather than on the living leaves or bark of trees or shrubs. Four species of Porina are also reported for the first time from Ecuador.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 2003

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