A further new species in the lichen genus Arctomia: A. borbonica from Reunion (Mascarene archipelago)

By

Magain, Nicolas
Sérusiaux, Emmanuël

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2012

Original Publication

MycoKeys

Volume

4

Pages

9-21

Subjects

Arctomia , Arctomiaceae , Ascomycota , Mascarene archipelago , mtSSU , nuLSU , Ostropomycetidae , phylogenetic inferences , Réunion , RPB1

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2011-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.4.2809

 

Abstract

Arctomia borbonica sp. nov. is described as new for science from montane natural and secondary habitats in Reunion, in the Mascarene archipelago (Indian Ocean). It has a sterile, foliose, usually wrinkled, thallus whose margins produce goniocysts that disintegrate into a soredioid margin; it looks like a Leptogium species. Its phylogenetic position in the Arctomiaceae (Ostropomycetidae, Ascomycota) has been determined with 3 genes (nuLSU, mtSSU, RPB1) inferences.