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A new species of Pertusaria from China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2013

Qiang REN
Affiliation:
College of Life Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, Shandong, China. Email: rendaqiang@hotmail.com
Xingran KOU
Affiliation:
College of Life Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, Shandong, China. Email: rendaqiang@hotmail.com

Abstract

The saxicolous species, Pertusaria weii Q. Ren (Pertusariaceae, Ascomycota) from China, is described as new to science. Diagnostic characters for the new species are a brownish, marginally unzoned thallus; numerous, solitary and lecanorate verrucae with heavily pruinose discs that are black; a strongly K+ violet epithecial reaction; 1-spored cylindrical asci with single, smooth-walled, untrimmed and ovoid spores; and, the presence of stictic acid. It grows on calcareous rock and is known only from the Tianshan Mountains in Western China.

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Copyright © British Lichen Society 2013

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