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 [...]
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 [...]
Paralecia pratorum Brackel, Greiner, Peršoh & Rambold, sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: IF550913, Facesoffunginumber: FoF 00553; Fig. 1 Etymology – The specific epithet ‘pratorum’ (lat., genitive plural of ‘pratum’) refers to the name of the type locality ‘Prati [= meadows] di Logarghena’. Holotype – M-0045925 Lichenicolous on Protoparmeliopsis muralis. Thallus externally not visible, endothallic [...]
Paralecia Brackel, Greiner, Peršoh & Rambold, gen.nov. Index Fungorum number: IF551012, Facesoffungi number: FoF 00563 Etymology – The genus name ‘Paralecia’ refers to ‘para-’(along with, beside) and to ‘lecia’ (refers to the lecideine apothecia). Type species – Paralecia pratorum Brackel, Greiner, Peršoh & Rambold Notes – This new species is characterized by its lichenicolous, [...]