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Issue: Vol. 340 No. 1: 21 February 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-02-21
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.340.1.7
Page range: 86–92
Abstract views: 120
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of Acarospora (Acarosporaceae, Acarosporales, lichenized Ascomycota) from the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen, Box 7800, NO-5020 Bergen
Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen, Box 7800, NO-5020 Bergen
Department of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Kamýcká 129, Praha 6 - Suchdol, CZ–165 21,
Herbarium, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI 48823
lichenized fungi new species South America southern subpolar region Lichens

Abstract

Acarospora malouina Øvstedal & K. Knudsen is described from the Falkland Islands. It is morphologically very similar to the Antarctic species A. gwynnii but differs in chemistry, ecology and evidence from molecular data.

How to Cite

Øvstedal, D.O., Lindblom, L., Knudsen, K. & Fryday, A.M. (2018)

A new species of Acarospora (Acarosporaceae, Acarosporales, lichenized Ascomycota) from the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

. Phytotaxa 340 (1): 86–92. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.340.1.7