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Type: Article
Published: 2014-12-19
Page range: 180–185
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New species of graphidoid and thelotremoid Graphidaceae from Australia

Haslevej 103d, 3700 Rønne, Denmark
Science & Education, Integrative Research Center and Collections Center, The Field Museum, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496, U.S.A.
Science & Education, Integrative Research Center and Collections Center, The Field Museum, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496, U.S.A.
New South Wales Ostropales Queensland Rhabdodiscus Stegobolus Tasmania Victoria.

Abstract

Four new graphidoid and thelotremoid Graphidaceae are described from Australia, all supported by previously published molecular data. Fissurina bullata Mangold, Lücking & Lumbsch differs from other Fissurina species in having a strongly bullate thallus with large clusters of calcium oxalate crystals, in combination with a psoromic acid chemistry. Ocellularia australiana Mangold, Lücking & Lumbsch is similar to O. wirthii in having a white-grey thallus and in containing psoromic acid but differs in the loose cortex and the more irregular ascomata with partly fissured margins and often divided, thickly white-tipped columella, as well as slightly larger ascospores. Thelotrema fuscosubtile Mangold, Lücking & Lumbsch was previously confused with T. subtile but can be distinguished by the prominent ascomata and in the ascospores becoming pale brown. Finally, T. inspersoporinaceum Mangold, Lücking & Lumbsch differs from T. porinaceum in having an inspersed hymenium.