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Caloplaca badioreagens, a new calcicolous, endolithic lichen from Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2006

Mauro TRETIACH
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri, 10, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
Lucia MUGGIA
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri, 10, I-34127 Trieste, Italy

Abstract

Caloplaca badioreagens is a new endolithic species of subgenus Pyrenodesmia characterized by a greyish brown, K+ reddish brown epithecium, and simple, non-capitate paraphyses. It is readily distinguishable from other endolithic Pyrenodesmias (C. agardhiana, C. alociza, C. erodens) by the presence of an unknown lichen substance in the excipulum and the subhymenium, forming large, rectangular crystal plates in GAW and GE. The new species was collected on hard limestone in three localities of central and southern Italy.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© British Lichen Society 2006

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