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Hueidea (Fuscideaceae), a new lichen genus from alpine Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

Gintaras Kantvilas  and
Patrick M. McCarthy
Gintaras Kantvilas
Affiliation:
Tasmanian Herbarium, Private Bag 4, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia.
Patrick M. McCarthy
Affiliation:
Australian Biological Resources Study, GPO Box 787, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia.
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Abstract

Hueidea australiensis Kantvilas & P.M. McCarthy gen. et sp. nov. (Fuscideaceae) is described from seasonally inundated, granite rocks in the Mt Kosciuszko area of New South Wales, Australia. The genus is characterized by the crustose habit, a green unicellular photobiont of the type found in the Fuscideaceae, Teloschistes-type, eight-spored asci, non-adhering, simple paraphyses and polarilocular, hyaline ascospores. Its systematic position is discussed, based on a comparative study of a range of related or superficially similar taxa from the Teloschistaceae and Fuscideaceae.

Keywords

AustraliaFuscideaceaeHueidea australiensislichensTeloschistaceae
Type
Research Article
Information
The Lichenologist , Volume 35 , Issue 5-6 , September 2003 , pp. 397 - 407
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 2003

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