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Type: Article
Published: 2014-12-19
Page range: 137–146
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New Graphidaceae from northern Argentina

Instituto de Botanica del Nordeste, Casilla de Correo 209, 3400 Corrientes, Argentina
Science & Education, The Field Museum, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605, U.S.A.
3ABL Herbarium, G.v.d.Veenstraat 107, NL-3762 XK Soest, The Netherlands
Departamento de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, CEP: 49500-000, Itabaiana, Sergipe, Brazil
Iguazú Chaco Corrientes Jujuy Misiones Salta taxonomy

Abstract

Six new species of Graphidaceae are described from northern Argentina: Graphis tetracarbonisata, with apical carbonization and additional patchy carbonization at the basis of the labiae, ascomata of the anguilliradians-morph, ascospores submuriform, 15–19-septate and with a few longitudinal septa, 73–87 × 13–16 μm, and thallus containing substances of the stictic acid complex; Leucodecton pustulatum, with gnarled confluent pustules and substances of the stictic acid complex; Ocellularia marmorata, which is close to O. auberianoides but with maculate thallus, blackened columella and without secondary chemistry; O. misionensis, differing from O. obturascens in the more complex, carbonized columella and lack of secondary substances; O. papillifera, with a thick thallus covered with papillae resembling pseudocyphellae and with large, columnar crystal clusters; and Rhabdodiscus argentinensis, similar to R. auberianus but with erumpent ascomata, smaller, consistently 3-septate ascospores, and stictic acid in addition to psoromic acid.