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Rhizocarpon quinonum, a new anthraquinone-containing species from the Alaska Peninsula

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2016

Bruce McCUNE*
Affiliation:
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-2902, USA
Einar TIMDAL
Affiliation:
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1172, Blindern, NO-0318 Oslo, Norway
Mika BENDIKSBY
Affiliation:
NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway

Abstract

Rhizocarpon quinonum McCune, Timdal & Bendiksby is described as a new species from two sites in Katmai National Park, south-western Alaska, in a suboceanic climate near the limit of trees on the Alaska Peninsula. Most similar in external appearance to R. arctogenum, R. bolanderi, R. leptolepis, and R. rittokense, the species is distinguished by the presence of an anthraquinone as a major substance. Mature apothecia are unknown, but ITS sequences are most similar to those of R. copelandii and R. jemtlandicum, although those species differ greatly in morphology from R. quinonum.

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© British Lichen Society, 2016 

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