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Issue: Vol. 459 No. 1: 9 September 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-09-09
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.459.1.8
Page range: 75–80
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 3

Porpidinia brevispora, a new species and the second representative of the genus Porpidinia (Lecideaceae, Lecanorales) from the Russian Far East

Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity FEB RAS, 100th anniversary of Vladivostok Avenue, 159, Vladivostok 690022, Russian Federation.
Altai State University, Lenin Ave. 61, 656049 Barnaul, Russia.
Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Biology, Ural Federal University, Lenin Ave., 51, 620000 Ekaterinburg, Russia.
National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Amakubo 4-1-1, Tsukuba city, 305-0005 Japan.
new taxa East Asia Porpidinia tumidula calciphilous lichen Shikhote-Alin Range squamulose growth form Lichens

Abstract

Porpidinia brevispora sp. nov. from Shikhote-Alin Range, Primorye Territory, Russian Far East is described and illustrated. The new species resembles Porpidinia tumidula morphologically, but is distinct in its spherical to ellipsoid, significantly smaller ascospores that do not overlap in size with those of P. tumidula, as well as a lower hymenium with paraphyses embedded into hyaline gelatinous envelopes, up to 5 µm wide. Porpidinia brevispora inhabits carbonate rocks at low elevations.