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Lecidea hercynica, a new montane epiphytic lichen from Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2005

Michaela SCHMULL  and
Markus HAUCK
Michaela SCHMULL
Affiliation:
Albrecht von Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen, Untere Karspüle 2, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany
Markus HAUCK
Affiliation:
Albrecht von Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen, Untere Karspüle 2, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany
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Abstract

Lecidea hercynica Hauck & Schmull is described as a new species from Germany. It is characterized by a poorly developed or bullate to verrucose, areolate thallus on whitened spots of the substratum, numerous plane to yellowish brown to black, convex apothecia with a persistent margin, Micarea type-like asci, and by the presence of atranorin and protocetraric acid. It does not belong to Lecidea s. str., but is provisionally placed in Lecidea s. lat. until a taxonomic treatment of the whole group has been carried out. Lecidea hercynica is widespread in high-elevation forests of Picea abies in the Harz Mountains, where it grows preferably on decorticated wood in open situations.

Keywords

Harz MountainsLecideaceaelichenized Ascomycetes
Type
Research Article
Information
The Lichenologist , Volume 37 , Issue 6 , November 2005 , pp. 485 - 489
Copyright
© British Lichen Society 2005

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