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Lecania Pusilla, A New Bryophilous Lichen from the Trieste Karst

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

Mauro Tretiach
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Biologia, Universit´ degli Studi di Trieste, Via Giorgieri 10, I 34127 Trieste, Italy

Abstract

Lecania pusilla Tretiach sp. nov. is described from the Trieste Karst, where it was collected twice on epilithic mosses in protected overhangs. The new species is characterized by simple or uniseptate spores, pruinose apothecia, and Bacidia-type asci; it has a reduced, granular thallus with no lichen substances.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 1996

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