Usnea Dill. ex Adans. Index Fungorum number: IF 5692; Mycobank number: MB 5692 Notes – The genus Usnea forms a strong supported clade (named “usneoid”) within the phylogeny of Parmeliaceae (Crespo et al. 2007) sister to Cornicularia normoerica (Divakar et al. 2015). Usnea is a fruticose lichen genus easily recognized by its thallus branches with [...]
Usnea kriegeriana A. Gerlach & P. Clerc, sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: IF 900342; Mycobank number: MB 900342; Facesoffungi number: FoF 14476; Fig. 1 Etymology – In honor of the Brazilian Priest Leopoldo Krieger, retired botany teacher of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Brazil), who collected many Usnea specimens chiefly in the south [...]
Stictis Pers. Index Fungorum number: IF5236; MycoBank number: MB 5236 Stictis species are distributed in tropical and temperate regions (Joshi et al. 2012). These species occur as saprophytes or lichenized fungi on dead twigs, leaves, fern fronds, grasses, and herbaceous stems (Wedin et al. 2004; Li and Hou 2016). Sexual morph of Stictis is characterized [...]
Stictis anomianthi N.I. de Silva, Lumyong & K.D. Hyde, sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: IF 900477; MycoBank number: MB 900477; Facesoffungi number: FoF 14187; Fig. 1 Saprobic on dead twigs of Anomianthus dulcis (Dunal) J.Sinclair. Sexual morph: Apothecia 250–350 μm high×600–700 μm diam. (x=270×650 μm, n=10), initially immersed, opening by entire pore at maturity, [...]
Wetmoreana Arup, Søchting & Frödén, in Arup, Søchting & Frödén, Nordic Jl Bot. 31(1): 66 (2013) Index Fungorum number: IF 802011; MycoBank number: MB 802011 Notes – Wetmoreana is a recently split genus in Teloschistaceae (Arup et al. 2013). At the moment, three to five species are recognized in this genus, depending on whether or [...]
Wetmoreana blastidiocalcarea Aptroot, M.F. Souza & Spielmann sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: IF 900070; MycoBank number: MB 900070; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13391; Fig. 1 Saxicolous Wetmoreana on limestone with thallus thick, yellow-orange, radially lobate, central part of the thallus areolate, covered by c. 0.05 mm diam, semiglobose corticate bulbs of thallus color that might serve [...]
Lecanora Ach., in Luyken, Tent. Hist. Lich.: 90 (1809). Index Fungorum number: IF 2687; MycoBank number: MB 2687 Notes – Lecanora is a large, heterogeneous and possibly paraphyletic genus. Some species of this group are well-defined. Below we describe a new species in the somewhat aberrant Lecanora marginata (Schaer.) Hertel & Rambold group (Rambold 1989). [...]
Lecanora immersocalcarea Aptroot, M.F. Souza & Spielmann, sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: IF 900069; MycoBank number: MB 900069; Facesoffungi: FoF 13390; Fig. 1 Saxicolous Lecanora on limestone with thallus 0.5–0.8(- 2.0) mm thick, very pale ochraceous white, apothecia immersed in the thallus, black, immature. Etymology – Named for the immersed apothecia and the calcareous habitat. [...]
Buellia De Not., G. bot. ital. 2(1.1): 195 (1846) Index Fungorum number: IF 674; MycoBank number: MB 674 Notes – Buellia is a large, heterogeneous and probably a polyphyletic genus. Some species groups are relatively well-defined and may warrant formal recognition. This includes the Buellia subalbula (Nyl.) Müll. Arg. aggregate (Bungartz et al. 2011). [...]
Buellia pruinocalcarea Aptroot, M.F. Souza & Spielmann, sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: IF 900068; MycoBank number: MB 900068; Facesoffungi number: FOF 13389; Fig. 1 Saxicolous Buellia on limestone with thallus thick, white, apothecia flush with the thallus, densely white pruinose, and ascospores 12–14×6–7 µm. Holotype – Aptroot 77815. Etymology – Named after the white pruina [...]