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A new species of Fellhanera (lichenized Ascomycota: Pilocarpaceae) from central North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2013

Caleb A. MORSE
Affiliation:
Biodiversity Institute, R. L. McGregor Herbarium, University of Kansas, 2045 Constant Ave., Lawrence, KS 66047, USA. Email: cmorse@ku.edu
Douglas LADD
Affiliation:
The Nature Conservancy, 2800 S. Brentwood Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63144, USA

Abstract

Fellhanera crucitignorum, a blastidiate crustose lichen with anthraquinones and submuriform ascospores, is described as new to science. The species is associated with exposures of non-calcareous sandstones in Kansas and Oklahoma, in the southern portion of North America's Great Plains. The authraquinones are typically concentrated in the blastidia, creating a distinctive grey thallus with localized orange granules.

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Copyright © British Lichen Society 2013

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