A new species of Porina (lichenized Ascomycota, Porinaceae) from Tasmania

Authors

  • Patrick McCarthy None
  • Gintaras Kantvilas Tasmanian Herbarium, Hobart

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7751/telopea11100

Keywords:

Australia, biodiversity, lichens, taxonomy

Abstract

Porina australis sp. nov. (lichenized Ascomycota, Porinaceae) is described from seasonally inundated, siliceous rocks in the Frankland River, north-western Tasmania, Australia. It has a thin, medium yellow-brown to dark rusty red-brown, rimose to areolate thallus, prominent, medium-sized, blackish perithecia that are mainly orange-brown within, a comparatively thick, pale excipulum and fusiform or narrowly oblong, 7(–9)-septate ascospores of 37–65 × 5–8 µm.

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Published

2017-06-12

Issue

Vol. 20

Section

Articles