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Two new Aspicilia species from Fennoscandia and Russia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2010

Anders NORDIN
Affiliation:
Museum of Evolution, Botany, Norbyvägen 16, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden. Email: anders.nordin@evolmuseum.uu.se
Björn OWE-LARSSON
Affiliation:
Museum of Evolution, Botany, Norbyvägen 16, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden. Email: anders.nordin@evolmuseum.uu.se
Leif TIBELL
Affiliation:
Department of Systematic Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden.

Abstract

Aspicilia fluviatilis and A. granulosa, two arctic and/or (sub)alpine species with elongate ± diverging and ± branching marginal areoles, are described as new and compared with similar species occurring in Fennoscandia. A parsimony analysis based on ITS indicates a close relationship with the mainly coastal A. epiglypta. Aspicilia epiglypta, A. disserpens and A. sublapponica are lectotypified and A. disserpens is reduced to synonymy with A. perradiata. Aspicilia alboradiata and A. circularis are excluded from the Fennoscandian lichen biota. A key to Fennoscandian Aspicilia species with radiating thalli and/or elongate ± diverging and ± branching marginal areoles is also presented.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 2010

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