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Issue: Vol. 402 No. 6: 8 May 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-05-08
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.402.6.3
Page range: 288–294
Abstract views: 24
PDF downloaded: 1

Upretia squamulosa, a new lichen species from the arid valley of Jinsha-jiang River, China

CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Heilongtan, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuquanlu, Beijing, 100049, China
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Heilongtan, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Heilongtan, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuquanlu, Beijing, 100049, China
Department of Biology, Sect. for Ecology and Evolution, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen Ø, DK-2100, Denmark
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Heilongtan, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Heilongtan, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Heilongtan, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
Algae Ioplaca Lichenized fungi Molecular phylogeny Taxonomy Teloschistaceae

Abstract

Upretia squamulosa is described as new to science from the arid valley of Jinsha-jiang River, China. It is characterized by a squamulose thallus, greyish green to brown upper surface, lecanorine apothecia, and by containing gyrophoric and lecanoric acids. The other species in the genus, U. amarkantakana, differs from the new species by the crustose to subsquamulose thallus with lobate margin and the absence of gyrophoric and lecanoric acids. A phylogenetic tree based on nrITS for Upretia and related genera in the subfamily Caloplacoideae is established to assess the affinities of the new species.