<strong>Three new species of Graphidaceae from tropical Africa</strong>

DRIES VAN DEN BROECK; ROBERT LÜCKING; DAMIEN ERTZ

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.189.1.23

Issue: Vol. 189 No. 1: 19 December 2014

Type: Article

Published: 2014-12-19

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.189.1.23

Page range: 325–330

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Three new species of Graphidaceae from tropical Africa

DRIES VAN DEN BROECK⁺⁻
ROBERT LÜCKING⁺⁻
DAMIEN ERTZ⁺⁻

Department of Bryophytes-Thallophytes, Botanic Garden Meise, Nieuwelaan 38, 1860 Meise, Belgium

Science & Education, The Field Museum, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, 60605-2496, U.S.A.

Department of Bryophytes-Thallophytes, Botanic Garden Meise, Nieuwelaan 38, 1860 Meise, Belgium

Democratic Republic of the Congo Graphis Palaeotropics Redingeria Reunion taxonomy

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Abstract

Three new species of Graphidaceae are described as new to science from tropical Africa: Graphis aptrootiana Van den Broeck, Lücking & Ertz and Redingeria desseiniana Van den Broeck, Lücking & Ertz from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and G. vandenboomiana Ertz, Lücking & Van den Broeck from Reunion. A key is presented to all known species of Redingeria. The lichenicolous fungus Etayoa trypethelii is mentioned as new to Central Africa.