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Macentina Aurantiaca, A New Lichen From the Burren, Western Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

P. M. McCarthy
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, University College, Galway, Ireland
A. Vězda
Affiliation:
Botanical Institute, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Tábor 28a, 60200 Brno, Czechoslovakia

Abstract

Macentina aurantiaca sp. nov. (Verrucariaceae) is described from the Burren, western Ireland. A sciophilous lichen, it is characterized by its comparatively large, orange ascomata and by its mostly 7-septate, elongate-ellipsoid ascospores.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 1985

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