A new saxicolous species of Fellhanera (lichenized Ascomycota, Pilocarpaceae) from eastern New South Wales, Australia
- Author:
- McCarthy P.M. & Elix J.A.
- Year:
- 2019
- Journal:
- Australasian Lichenology
- Pages:
- 85: 3–7
- Url:
Fellhanera pluviosilvestris sp. nov. (Pilocarpaceae) is described from siliceous rock in cooltemperate
rainforest in eastern New South Wales, Australia. It has a thin, continuous, greyish
brown thallus that lacks lichen substances, medium-sized, sessile, biatorine apothecia with
a dull blackish disc and a paler proper margin, a uniformly pale, paraplectenchymatous
and cupulate excipulum, a dark brown, K+ orange-brown hypothecium and epihymenium,
and (4–)8-spored, Byssoloma-type asci with ellipsoid to oblong, (1–)3-septate ascospores
measuring 10–18 × 4.5–7.5 μm.
- Id:
- 31485
- Submitter:
- zdenek
- Post_time:
- Tuesday, 13 August 2019 19:40