Phylogenetic approaches reveal a new sterile lichen in the genus Loxospora (Sarrameanales, Ascomycota) in Poland

• DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.348.3.4
• Publication Date: 2018-05-02T01:41:34Z
• Authors: BEATA GUZOW-KRZEM...; ANNA ŁUBEK; DARIUSZ KUBIAK; EMILIA OSSOWSKA; MARTIN KUKWA
• Keywords: Thallus; Ascocarp

Loxospora cristinae sp. nov. is a sterile corticolous lichen characterized by sorediate, thin, smooth, folded, cracked-areolate and non-verruculose to partly verruculose thalli, soralia soon becoming confluent the production of 2’-O-methylperlatolic acid. The new species similar recently described L. assateaguensis confusa, which are also contain can be readily distinguished from thallus, distinctly almost edge pustular, circular developing apically on thalline verrucae, confusa presence granular isidia. distinction all three their phylogenetic position corroborated molecular approaches using mtSSU ITS markers. has been found so far only in well preserved forests Poland.