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Type: Article
Published: 2020-11-23
Page range: 184–192
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New insights into the systematics and phylogeny of the genus Fouragea (Arthoniales, Opegraphaceae)

Meise Botanic Garden, Department of Research, Nieuwelaan 38, 1860 Meise, Belgium. Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service général de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche scientifique, Rue A. Lavallée 1, 1080 Bruxelles, Belgium.
Comoros archipelago diversity lichen Opegrapha taxonomy Lichens

Abstract

The foliicolous lichen-forming fungus Opegrapha vegae was collected on the French island of Mayotte (Comoros archipelago). Phylogenetic analyses using nuLSU and RPB2 sequences place this species in the genus Fouragea (Opegraphaceae). Opegrapha alba, O. heliabravoa, O. tuxtlensis and O. vegae are newly combined in the genus Fouragea because of their foliicolous habit, their general morphology and their ascomata and ascospores types. Fouragea vegae is reported as new for the Comoros archipelago.