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A new Opegrapha with submuriform ascospores from Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2013

Marcela Eugenia da Silva CÁCERES ,
Edvaneide Leandro de LIMA  and
André APTROOT
Marcela Eugenia da Silva CÁCERES
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, CEP: 49500-000, Itabaiana, Sergipe, Brazil
Edvaneide Leandro de LIMA
Affiliation:
Departamento de Micologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, CEP: 50670-901, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
André APTROOT*
Affiliation:
ABL Herbarium, G.v.d.Veenstraat 107, NL-3762 XK Soest, The Netherlands. Email: andreaptroot@gmail.com
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Abstract

The new species Opegrapha subdictyospora is described from NE Brazil. It is only the third species in the genus with (sub)muriform ascospores and is further characterized by the brown pruinose discs. It was collected at Vale do Catimbau National Park in Pernambuco, which is a Caatinga area, where it is locally common.

Keywords

CaatingaDictyographaLecanographalichennew speciesPernambucoRoccellaceaetaxonomy
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The Lichenologist , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , May 2013 , pp. 375 - 378
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 2013

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