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Myeloconis, A New Genus Of Pyrenocarpous Lichens From The Tropics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

P. M. McCarthy  and
J. A. Elix
P. M. McCarthy
Affiliation:
Australian Biological Resources Study, Flora Section, GPO Box 636, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia.
J. A. Elix
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, The Faculties, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. 0200, Australia.
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Abstract

Myeloconis P. M. McCarthy & Elix gen. nov. is described from the Neotropics and the eastern Paleotropics. Four new species, M. erumpens, M. fecunda, M. guyanenis and M. parva, are recognized. The genus is characterized by a medulla containing previously unknown yellow or orange pigments and perithecioid ascomata with a dark, dense, almost pseudostromatal wall, a basally anastomosing, but otherwise free, hamathecium, uniformly thin-walled asci and elongate, muriform ascospores. While its affinities are uncertain, the ascomata and their contents suggest a rather close relationship with Porina Müll. Arg. and ClathroporinaMüll. Arg. (Trichotheliaceae).

Type
Research Article
Information
The Lichenologist , Volume 28 , Issue 5 , September 1996 , pp. 401 - 414
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 1996

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