{"title":"Fourteen new Carbacanthographis species from the Neotropics, with ecological observation","authors":"H. Sipman, A. Aptroot","doi":"10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0016","url":null,"abstract":"A revision of neotropical specimens of the genus Carbacanthographis (Graphidaceae, lichenized fungi) revealed the presence of 14 undescribed species: Carbacanthographis bulbosa, C. clandestinospora, C. cristata, C. denudata, C. granulosa, C. inspersomarcescens, C. isidiata, C. latisporoides, C. lucidocleitops, C. minutissima, C. multiseptatoides, C. nigra, C. nitida, and C. protocristata. They are presented below. The genus appears to have a diversity center in semideciduous forests of northern South America, with up to 7 different species on a single tree","PeriodicalId":52151,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Fungal Systematics","volume":"119 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139145831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Helge Thorsten Lumbsch, Bruce McCune, Claire Morris
{"title":"A new species of Diploschistes (Lecanoromycetes) occurring on Stereocaulon from the Pacific Northwest of North America","authors":"Helge Thorsten Lumbsch, Bruce McCune, Claire Morris","doi":"10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0017","url":null,"abstract":"We describe Diploschistes stereocaulorum as a new species of lichenized fungi growing on phyllocladia and stalks of Stereocaulon in the Pacific Northwest of North America. The larger ascospores of this species, the absence of a noticeable thallus, and the ITS barcode locus distinguish it from D. muscorum, which has been reported as growing on Stereocaulon, but has smaller ascospores and a distinct thallus. In phylogenetic reconstruction, the new species is sister to D. diacapsis, albeit without support.","PeriodicalId":52151,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Fungal Systematics","volume":"2 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139147333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New species and records of Graphidaceae and Gomphillaceae (lichenized fungi) from Brazil","authors":"A. Aptroot, Robert Lücking, M. Cáceres","doi":"10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0010","url":null,"abstract":"We describe 14 new lichen species in the family Graphidaceae, mainly from the Amazon basin: Acanthothecis aggregata, Allographa ancelina, A. apicalinspersa, Chapsa constrictospora, C. diorygmoides, C. lichexanthonica, Clandestinotrema caloplacosporum, Diorygma defectoisidiatum, D. gyrosum, D. lichexanthonicum, D. norsubmuriforme, D. salxanthonicum, D. toensbergianum, and Ocellularia flavoradiata. For each species, it is indicated where and how it would key out in a recent identification key. Two of the Diorygma species are sterile and were assigned to this genus by sequencing the mtSSU gene. Five additional species are new to Brazil and 27 others, including some Gomphillaceae, are new state records.","PeriodicalId":52151,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Fungal Systematics","volume":" 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139144185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lecanora (Aspicilia) masafuerensis is a species of Xenolecia (Ascomycota, Lecideaceae)","authors":"A. Fryday","doi":"10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0022","url":null,"abstract":"The new combination Xenolecia masafuerensis is made for Lecanora masafuerensis, a lichen species known from only two localities on Isla Alejandro Selkirk in the Juan Fernández archipelago, Chile. The species is fully described and illustrated and shown to be morphologically and chemically distinct from the similar X. spadicomma, which is known only from Chile and the Falkland Islands. The typification of X. masafuerensis and its distribution on the islands are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":52151,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Fungal Systematics","volume":"53 s183","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139145964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hidden in the dark under umbrellas: two new Psilolechia species (lichenized Ascomycota, Lecanorales) described from the Czech Republic","authors":"Z. Palice, S. Svoboda, Jan Vondrák","doi":"10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0013","url":null,"abstract":"Recent lichenological fieldwork in the Czech Republic resulted in the discovery of two previously unrecognized entities in the genus Psilolechia which are described below as new species: the saxicolous P. cretacea and the lignicolous P. torii. Both taxa regularly produce a hyphomycetous anamorph in the form of erect, elongate conidiogenous cells on the thallus surface, and both contain unidentified specific secondary metabolites. The placement of the two new species within the genus is primarily based on morphology and chemistry. In addition, three barcodes were received for P. cretacea (ITS, mtSSU) and P. torii (ITS). A key to the five species of Psilolechia currently known from Europe is included.","PeriodicalId":52151,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Fungal Systematics","volume":"14 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139145505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Four new species of Parvoplaca (Teloschistales, Ascomycota)","authors":"U. Arup, Ulrik Søchting, M. Gökhan Halici","doi":"10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0014","url":null,"abstract":"The genus Parvoplaca is extended with four new species: P. candanii from Antarctica, P. lamprocarpa from Alaska, and P. macroborealis and P. tenebrosa from Oregon. Collections identified as P. tiroliensis are shown to form two independent clades when DNA was analyzed, but it is currently not clear which clade represents the species in a strict sense. Parvoplaca athallina has been considered an Antarctic species, but according to our analyses, the species is shown to be bipolar occurring also in northern Europe, Greenland, Alaska and in California.","PeriodicalId":52151,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Fungal Systematics","volume":"179 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139145640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stereocaulon tomentosoides, a new combination for a western North American endemic species with cyanobiont and chemotype polymorphisms","authors":"Bruce McCune, Lucie Vančurová, Leena Myllys","doi":"10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0020","url":null,"abstract":"Based on resampling the type locality and surrounding regions, along with phylogenetic analysis of molecular data, we elevate Stereocaulon sasakii var. tomentosoides to the species level, while we treat S. sasakii var. simplex as an environmental modification of S. tomentosoides. We found no phylogenetic evidence that any variety of S. sasakii occurs in North America, so we suggest that the species be removed from the North American list and its North American varieties transferred to S. tomentosoides. Stereocaulon tomentosoides is so far confirmed only from the Pacific Northwest of North America. Furthermore, it is largely allopatric with S. tomentosum, apart from a small region of overlap in northern Idaho and western Montana. While S. tomentosum always contains stictic acid and never lobaric acid as secondary metabolites, S. tomentosoides differs in having a predominant chemotype of lobaric acid as the major substance, with an infrequent chemotype containing both lobaric and stictic acids. While S. tomentosoides usually contains Nostoc in the cephalodia, occasional individuals, especially from old mossy lava flows, contain Stigonema; one specimen was found with both kinds of cephalodia on a single thallus. Phylogenetic analysis of these species and other close relatives revealed an additional species described here, S. cyaneum, so far known only from the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada and separated from S. tomentosum by its bluish coloration, wet or dry","PeriodicalId":52151,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Fungal Systematics","volume":" 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139142609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Kukwa, Stefan Ekman, C. Printzen, A. Flakus, Jolanta Miadlikowska
{"title":"A tribute to Professor Tor Tønsberg","authors":"M. Kukwa, Stefan Ekman, C. Printzen, A. Flakus, Jolanta Miadlikowska","doi":"10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52151,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Fungal Systematics","volume":" 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139142005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bacidia genuensis B. de Lesd. resurrected","authors":"S. Ekman","doi":"10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0012","url":null,"abstract":"The species described as Bacidia genuensis is transferred here to Bacidina as B. genuensis (Ramalinaceae, Lecanorales, lichenized Ascomycota). An updated morphological description is provided. The species is characterized by mostly blackish apothecia on a thick, microsquamulose thallus, a crystal-inspersed proper exciple that is mostly prosoplechtenchymatous, an ascus with a wide and dome-shaped axial body and an expanded c-layer (resulting in a thin, amyloid d-layer), a blue-green pigment in the epihymenium, proper exciple, and pycnidial wall, and an orange-brown, K+ intensifying pigment in the hypothecium and sometimes proper exciple. This combination of characters sets the species apart from its potentially close relatives Bacidina egenula and B. indigens, as well as the superficially similar, but more distantly related, Toniniopsis bagliettoana. Bacidina genuensis is currently known from a few sites in northern Italy, where it inhabits weathered and apparently shaded mortar of masonry.","PeriodicalId":52151,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Fungal Systematics","volume":" 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139142564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Ertz, P. Diederich, J. Lendemer, Harald Komposch, Richard C. Harris, Alejandro Huereca
{"title":"A remarkable and widespread new lichenicolous species of Mycocalicium (Sphinctrinaceae) producing campylidia-like conidiomata and appendiculate conidia","authors":"D. Ertz, P. Diederich, J. Lendemer, Harald Komposch, Richard C. Harris, Alejandro Huereca","doi":"10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0024","url":null,"abstract":"A lichenicolous fungus forming large black, vertically elongate, campylidia-like conidiomata on the thallus of Ochrolechia was recently collected in Austria, Mexico and the USA. The conidia are so remarkable in being multiappendiculate that initially no existing fungal genera appeared to be suitable for its description. Nevertheless, molecular phylogenetic analyses of nuITS and nuLSU sequences recovered the species within the genus Mycocalicium. To date, no species of Mycocaliciales has been reported producing appendiculate conidia. The species is described as new M. campylidiophorum. The new species was also discovered in the type specimen of Opegrapha chionographa that was collected in Colombia 163 years ago. This discovery led us to revise O. chionographa, originally described as a lichen, and clarify that in fact the name applies to a lichenicolous fungus based on type material that is an admixture of M. campylidiophorum, an Ochrolechia and an Opegrapha species. The name is shown to apply to the Opegrapha species and lectotypified as such. Opegrapha blakii is treated as synonym of O. chionographa.","PeriodicalId":52151,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Fungal Systematics","volume":" 36","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139144407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}