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Issue: Vol. 630 No. 2: 14 Dec. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-12-14
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.630.2.6
Page range: 149-153
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Lectotypification of the name Umbilicaria africana (Umbilicariaceae, lichenized Ascomycota)

Altai State University; Lenin Ave. 61; 656049 Barnaul; Russia
Federal Scientific Center of East Asian Terrestrial Biodiversity of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; 159 Prospect 100th anniversary of Vladivostok; 690022 Vladivostok; Russia
Lichens Africa Antonio Jatta nomenclature Ruwenzori Mts. thalloconidia

Abstract

The name Umbilicaria africana (≡Gyrophora haplocarpa var. africana), a polar-alpine lichen-forming fungus, is reviewed and lectotypified using a specimen from the Jatta collection deposited in the Herbarium Neapolitanum (NAP).

 

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