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Micarea capitata, a new bryophilous lichen from Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2011

Måns SVENSSON  and
Göran THOR
Måns SVENSSON
Affiliation:
Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 7044, SE 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The diminutive species Micarea capitata is described from north-western Sweden. It has been found at two localities in boreal forests where it grew on the bryophyte Hylocomium splendens. Micarea capitata is distinguished by small (0·10–0·35 mm diam.) black apothecia, (0–)1-septate ascospores and a mottled, darkly pigmented hypothecium.

Keywords

apothecial pigmentsEuropeFennoscandiamuscicolousPilocarpaceae
Type
Research Article
Information
The Lichenologist , Volume 43 , Issue 5 , September 2011 , pp. 401 - 405
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 2010

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