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

DAG O. ØVSTEDAL; LOUISE LINDBLOM; KERRY KNUDSEN; ALAN M. FRYDAY

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.340.1.7

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

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

DAG O. ØVSTEDAL⁺⁻
LOUISE LINDBLOM⁺⁻
KERRY KNUDSEN⁺⁻
ALAN M. FRYDAY⁺⁻

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

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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.