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A new Bunodophoron species (Sphaerophoraceae, Lecanorales) from the Neotropics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2018

Edier SOTO MEDINA ,
Maria PRIETO  and
Mats WEDIN
Edier SOTO MEDINA
Affiliation:
Grupo de Ecología y Diversidad Vegetal, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Valle, Calle 13 N° 100-00, Cali, Colombia
Maria PRIETO
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/ Tulipan s/n, E-28933 Mostoles, Madrid, Spain; and Department of Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 50007, SE-10405 Stockholm, Sweden
Mats WEDIN*
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 50007, SE-10405 Stockholm, Sweden.
*
(corresponding author): Email: mats.wedin@nrm.se
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Abstract

This is the first part of an ongoing taxonomic treatment of Bunodophoron (Sphaerophoraceae, Lecanorales) in the Neotropics, based on the molecular phylogenetic analysis of three markers together with studies of morphology and chemistry, and using the general mixed Yule coalescence (GMYC) method to delimit species boundaries. In the Neotropics, species in this genus grow on the ground or on shrubs in the páramos, and as epiphytes in the montane rainforests. We describe here a new species from the páramos of Colombia, Bunodophoron crespoae Soto, M. Prieto & Wedin sp. nov., and discuss its distinction from another large and common páramo species Bunodophoron flabellatum (Hue) Soto, M. Prieto & Wedin comb. nov. Both species are primarily terrestrial in the páramos, although B. flabellatum may occasionally also grow as an epiphyte. Bunodophoron crespoae is characterized by the white, c. 10–13 cm long, subterete to narrowly flattened, main branches. It differs from the otherwise similar B. flabellatum by being distinctly subterete, more abundantly branched, and by having smaller ascospores. Both are distinguished from the primarily epiphytic B. melanocarpum by the considerably larger thallus size, with the main branches of B. melanocarpum rarely exceeding 3·5 cm in length and 2 mm in width.

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lichenized funginomenclaturephylogenyspecies boundariessystematicstaxonomy
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The Lichenologist , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , May 2018 , pp. 255 - 266
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© British Lichen Society, 2018 

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