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Type: Article
Published: 2014-08-15
Page range: 281–286
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The first squamulose Thelocarpon species (Thelocarpaceae, Ascomycota) discovered in the biological soil crusts in the Bolivian Andes

Laboratory of Lichenology, W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lubicz 46, PL–31–512 Krakow, Poland
Department of Plant Taxonomy and Nature Conservation, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 59, PL–80–308 Gdańsk, Poland
biodiversity lichenized fungi Neotropics Pezizomycotina South America taxonomy

Abstract

Thelocarpon andicola, a new terricolous species from the tropical Andes in Bolivia is described in this paper. This is the first member of the genus with squamulose to placodioid and yellow pruinose thallus, which is further characterized by non-amyloid hymenial gel, branched paraphyses, amyloid asci without visible mass axiale and broadly ellipsoidal ascospores.