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- Title
Plectocarpon stereocaulicola (Roccellaceae, Ascomycota), a new lichenicolous fungus from Bolivia.
- Authors
KUKWA, Martin; ETAYO, Javier; FLAKUS, Adam
- Abstract
A new gall-inducing lichenicolous fungus, Plectocarpon stereocaulicola Kukwa, Etayo and Flakus, is described from Bolivia from the thalli of Stereocaulon sp. The new species is characterized by black, epruinose rounded ascomata with a carbonized surface and a thalline pseudo-margin, as well as a non-carbonized, light brown sterile stromatic tissue in the lower part and 3-septate ascospores becoming brown and ornamented when mature.
- Subjects
BOLIVIA; LATIN America; ASCOMYCETES; LICHENICOLOUS fungi; PLANT diversity; STEREOCAULON; LICHEN classification
- Publication
Lichenologist, 2012, Vol 44, Issue 4, p479
- ISSN
0024-2829
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0024282912000151