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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-07-11
Page range: 147–150
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A new species of Megalaria (Ascomycota, Ramalinaceae) and M. laureri new to mainland China

College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Ji’nan 250014, China
College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Ji’nan 250014, China
lichenized fungi lichen substances Lecanorales taxonomy Lichens

Abstract

Megalaria hainanensis is described as new to science. It occurs on bryophytes over rock, and is characterized by its large apothecia, light-brown to brown-red proper exciple, an epithecium containing cinereorufa-green, arnoldiana-brown in the hypothecium, ascospores of (22) –24– (25) × (9) –10 µm, and the presence of atranorin and zeorin in the thallus. Megalaria laureri is also reported from mainland China for the first time.