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Issue: Vol. 652 No. 2: 5 Jun. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-06-05
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.652.2.4
Page range: 124-132
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A new species in the genus Circinaria (Lichenized Ascomycetes: Megasporaceae) from Pakistan

Institute of Botany, Fungal Biology and Systematics Lab, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, 54590, Pakistan.
Institute of Botany, Fungal Biology and Systematics Lab, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, 54590, Pakistan.
Institute of Botany, Fungal Biology and Systematics Lab, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, 54590, Pakistan.
Department of Botany, University of Peshawar, Pakistan
The Museum of Iranian Lichens, Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology, Iran
Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, 620000, Russian Federation
School of Life Sciences, Taizhou University, Taizhou, 318000, China
Institute of Botany, Fungal Biology and Systematics Lab, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, 54590, Pakistan.
Dassu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Kohistan AJ&K Swat Phylogeny Taxonomy Fungi

Abstract

A crustose species Circinaria semicontorta is described here as new to science. It is characterized by a whitish areolate to subverrucose thallus with a thinning, cracked margin, not forming true lobes, areoles with raised whitish pseudocyphellae containing black ostioles of conidiomata, and long pycnoconidia, 12–25 μm. The phylogenetic analysis based on ITS sequences confirms placing the new species within Circinaria.

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