Di Meglio J.R. & Goward T.
(2023):
Resolving the Sticta fuliginosa morphodeme (lichenized Ascomycota: Peltigeraceae) in northwestern North America -
Bryologist,
126(1): 90–110
Sticta is a subcosmopolitan, predominantly epiphytic lichenizing fungal genus characteristic of
open sites in humid late-successional ecosystems. Recent molecular analysis has shown that the laminally
isidiate species S. fuliginosa, long assumed to be well delimited, encompasses .20 phylospecies which,
taken together, constitute the S. fuliginosa morphodeme. Here we elucidate the northwestern North
American members of this morphodeme based on a rich sampling from throughout the Pacific
Northwest …
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