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Nyungwea, a new genus of lichen with goniocyst-producing stipes from Rwanda and Uganda (East Africa)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2006

Emmanuël SÉRUSIAUX
Affiliation:
Plant Taxonomy & Conservation Biology Unit, Environmental Sciences Dept., University of Liège, Sart Tilman B22, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
Eberhard FISCHER
Affiliation:
Institute for Integrated Natural Sciences, Department of Biology, University Koblenz-Landau, Universitätsstraße 1, D-56070 Koblenz, Germany
Dorothee KILLMANN
Affiliation:
Institute for Integrated Natural Sciences, Department of Biology, University Koblenz-Landau, Universitätsstraße 1, D-56070 Koblenz, Germany

Abstract

The new genus and species Nyungwea pallida is characterized by a thin thallus lichenized with Trentepohlia and pale stipes producing goniocysts. Its taxonomic position is uncertain. It is named after the large pristine montane forest of Nyungwe in Rwanda (East Africa) where it was first found; it is also known from the Mabira forest in Uganda.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© British Lichen Society 2006

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