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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: 48
PDF downloaded: 1

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.