Kukwa M., Rodriguez-Flakus P., Aptroot A. & Flakus A.
(2023):
Two new species of Astrothelium from Sud Yungas in Bolivia and the first discovery of vegetative propagules in the family Trypetheliaceae (lichen-forming Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota) -
MycoKeys,
95: 83–100
Two new species of Astrothelium are described from the Yungas forest in Bolivian Andes. Astrothelium
chulumanense is characterised by pseudostromata concolorous with the thallus, perithecia immersed for
the most part, with the upper portion elevated above the thallus and covered, except the tops, with orange
pigment, apical and fused ostioles, the absence of lichexanthone (but thallus UV+ orange-yellow), clear
hamathecium, 8-spored asci and amyloid, large, muriform ascospores with median septa. …
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