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Thyrea Porphyrella, a new Species of the Lichinaceae from inselbergs in tropical South America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

M. Schultz
Affiliation:
FB Biologie, Abt. Allgemeine Botanik, Universität Kaiserslautern, Postfach 3049, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany.
B. Büdel
Affiliation:
FB Biologie, Abt. Allgemeine Botanik, Universität Kaiserslautern, Postfach 3049, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany.
S. Porembski
Affiliation:
FB Biologie, Abt. Allgemeine und Spezielle Botanik, Institut für Biodiversitätsforschung, Universität Rostock, Wismarsche Str. 8, D-18051 Rostock, Germany.

Abstract

The new species Thyrea porphyrella Schultz, Büdel & Porembski, in the Lichinaceae, is described from tropical South America. It grows on granite inselbergs in SE Brazil and in southern Guyana. Diagnostic characters are the very thin, superficially smooth but conspicuously uneven to folded thallus lobes of reddish-brown to crimson colour.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 2001

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