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
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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