A vegetation survey in Pukaskwa National Park carried out in conjunction with lake, soil, and rock studies resulted in the confirmation of a new shrub species for Ontario. This species. Mountain Bilberry ( Vaccinium membranaceum), is common in the study area. It is found on shallow acid soils in mature and over-mature mixed forests. It occurs in a sparse to moderately dense shrub layer over a usually well-developed herb layer (possibly a response to severe Spruce Budworm defoHation). Lists of … Read more... 

Madagascar, S. pruinosum, Scoliciosporum arachnoideum Aptroot Read more... 

This paper presents a new saxicolous species of Rinodina from the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia. Rinodina jacutica is characterized by spores of the Dirinaria-type and type A development, a light-gray thallus with a slight yellowish tinge and spot tests K+ yellow and P+ yellow, atranorin present. The paper provides data on the morphology, anatomy, ecology, and collection site of R. jacutica. Keywords: biodiversity, biogeography, lichens, new species, North East Asia, Siberia. Read more... 

The new saxicolous species, Porina austroatlantica, is described from the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. Read more... 

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 … Read more...