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Type: Article
Published: 2014-12-19
Page range: 325–330
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Three new species of Graphidaceae from tropical Africa

Department of Bryophytes-Thallophytes, Botanic Garden Meise, Nieuwelaan 38, 1860 Meise, Belgium
Science & Education, The Field Museum, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, 60605-2496, U.S.A.
Department of Bryophytes-Thallophytes, Botanic Garden Meise, Nieuwelaan 38, 1860 Meise, Belgium
Democratic Republic of the Congo Graphis Palaeotropics Redingeria Reunion taxonomy

Abstract

Three new species of Graphidaceae are described as new to science from tropical Africa: Graphis aptrootiana Van den Broeck, Lücking & Ertz and Redingeria desseiniana Van den Broeck, Lücking & Ertz from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and G. vandenboomiana Ertz, Lücking & Van den Broeck from Reunion. A key is presented to all known species of Redingeria. The lichenicolous fungus Etayoa trypethelii is mentioned as new to Central Africa.