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Lecidea rubrocastanea, a new lichen species from conifer bark and wood in interior western North America (Lecanorales, lichenized ascomycetes)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2007

Toby SPRIBILLE  and
Christian PRINTZEN
Toby SPRIBILLE
Affiliation:
Department of Vegetation Analysis, Albrecht von Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen, Untere Karspüle 2, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany. Email: tspribi@uni-goettingen.de
Christian PRINTZEN
Affiliation:
Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Abt. Botanik und Molekulare Evolutionsforschung, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Abstract:

Lecidea rubrocastanea T. Sprib. & Printzen is described as new from conifer bark and wood in montane valleys of inland British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington State. It is characterized by its combination of a crustose olivaceous thallus lacking secondary lichen substances, small, dark burgundy-red or maroon apothecia, dark-capped paraphyses, Lecidella-type ascus, small, thin-walled ascospores, and bacilliform conidia. The generic affinities of the species based on analysis of ITS DNA are unclear, but it has numerous morphological traits in common with Japewia.

Keywords

Canadaepiphytic lichensITS DNALecanoraceaePacific NorthwestParmeliaceae
Type
Research Article
Information
The Lichenologist , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , July 2007 , pp. 339 - 347
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 2007

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