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<mods:title>Two new species of Strigula (lichenised Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota) from China, with a key to the Chinese foliicolous species</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Jiang, Shu-Hua</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Wei, Xin-Li</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://fungalinfo.im.ac.cn/fungalname/fungalexample.html?fn=570329" authority="S. H. Jiang, X. L. Wei &amp; J. C. Wei" class="Dothideomycetes" family="Strigulaceae" genus="Strigula" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Strigula guangxiensis" order="Strigulales" pageId="4" pageNumber="35" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="species" species="guangxiensis">Strigula guangxiensis S.H.Jiang, X.L.Wei &amp; J.C.Wei</taxonomicName>
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Figure 3
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.
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Characterized by the thin thallus (30-45 
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thick), long asci (45-65 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
10-12.5 
<normalizedToken originalValue="μm">μm</normalizedToken>
), aggregated pycnidia, large ascospores (15-25 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
2.5-5 
<normalizedToken originalValue="μm">μm</normalizedToken>
), and 1-septate macroconidia (12.5-17.5 
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2.5-5 
<normalizedToken originalValue="μm">μm</normalizedToken>
).
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="36">Type.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="36">
CHINA. Guangxi: Nanning, 
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County, Longhu mountain natural reserve. 
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="22.961668">22°57'42&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
, 
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, 150 m alt., on living leaves, 1 Dec 2015, S.H.Jiang GX201511127 (
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0138040 - holotype).
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="36">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="36">
Thallus subcuticular, dispersed into rounded to irregular, partly confluent patches, 1-2 mm across, a few to 3 mm, 30-45 
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thick, margins entire to crenulate, bright green to pale green, sometimes white in the centre, surface smooth. Photobiont 
<taxonomicName class="Ulvophyceae" family="Trentepohliaceae" genus="Cephaleuros" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Cephaleuros" order="Trentepohliales" pageId="5" pageNumber="36" phylum="Chlorophyta" rank="genus">Cephaleuros</taxonomicName>
, cells 5-12 
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4-9 
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. Perithecia hemispherical, rarely found in specimens with aggregated pycnidia, small, scattered, round individuals with one or two perithecia occur in pure populations, basal part immersed in the thallus, 0.5-0.7 mm diam and 90-120 
<normalizedToken originalValue="μm">μm</normalizedToken>
tall, black. Exciple prosoplectenchymatous, 7.5-12.5 
<normalizedToken originalValue="μm">μm</normalizedToken>
thick, brown. Involucrellum carbonaceous, black, 20-90 
<normalizedToken originalValue="μm">μm</normalizedToken>
thick. Interascal filaments unbranched, c. 1-2 
<normalizedToken originalValue="μm">μm</normalizedToken>
thick. Asci obclavate, 45-65 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
10-12.5 
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. Ascospores 8 per ascus, biseriate, fusiform, 1-septate, distinctly constricted at the septum, distal cell slightly enlarged, 15-25 
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2.5-5 
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, 4-5 times as long as broad. Pycnidia producing abundant macroconidia, few on thalli producing perithecia and overgrowing them, single or most frequently aggregated in groups of 3-10, semi-immersed, wart-shaped, those producing macroconidia 0.07-0.15 mm diam, those producing microconidia 0.05-0.1 mm diam, black. Macroconidia bacillar, 1-septate, 12.5-17.5 
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2.5-5 
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. Microconidia fusiform, non-septate, 4-5 
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1.5-2 
<normalizedToken originalValue="μm">μm</normalizedToken>
.
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="36">Chemistry.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="36">No substances detected by TLC.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="36">Habitat and distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="36">On the surface of living leaves in humid, semi-exposed forests of south China.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="36">Etymology.</paragraph>
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The epithet &quot; 
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&quot; is the name of the province including the type locality of the new species.
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="36">Other specimens examined.</paragraph>
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CHINA. Guangxi: Nanning, 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Long’an">Long'an</normalizedToken>
County, Longhu mountain natural reserve. 
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="22.961668">22°57'42&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
, 
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, 150 m alt., on living 
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, 1 Dec 2015, S.H.Jiang GX201511078 (
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0138044), GX201511087 (
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0138041), GX201511071 (
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0138065), GX201511107 (
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0138043), GX201511130 (
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0138042).
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="37">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="37">
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is most similar to 
<taxonomicName class="Dothideomycetes" family="Strigulaceae" genus="Strigula" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Strigula subelegans" order="Strigulales" pageId="6" pageNumber="37" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="species" species="subelegans">Strigula subelegans</taxonomicName>
, having essentially the same ascospore dimensions, but differs in the smaller and thinner thallus (5-15 mm across and 30-70 
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thick in 
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; 
<bibRefCitation author="Lu ̈ cking, R" journalOrPublisher="New York Botanical Garden Press, New York" pageId="9" pageNumber="40" title="Foliicolous Lichenized Fungi (Flora Neotropica Vol. 103)." year="2008">Lücking 2008</bibRefCitation>
). In addition, the perithecia and pycnidia are usually separated on different thallus patches and the pycnidia are often aggregated (dispersed in 
<taxonomicName class="Dothideomycetes" family="Strigulaceae" genus="Strigula" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Strigula subelegans" order="Strigulales" pageId="6" pageNumber="37" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="species" species="subelegans">Strigula subelegans</taxonomicName>
) (
<bibRefCitation author="Lu ̈ cking, R" journalOrPublisher="New York Botanical Garden Press, New York" pageId="9" pageNumber="40" title="Foliicolous Lichenized Fungi (Flora Neotropica Vol. 103)." year="2008">Lücking 2008</bibRefCitation>
). 
<taxonomicName class="Dothideomycetes" family="Strigulaceae" genus="Strigula" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Strigula wandae" order="Strigulales" pageId="6" pageNumber="37" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="species" species="wandae">Strigula wandae</taxonomicName>
M. 
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&amp; 
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is also similar in appearance, but distinguished by the oblong-ellipsoid ascospores, with cells of equal size, solitary pycnidia, and smaller macroconidia (12-15 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
2.5-3 
<normalizedToken originalValue="μm">μm</normalizedToken>
) (
<bibRefCitation author="Lu ̈ cking, R" journalOrPublisher="Global Ecology &amp; Biogeography" pageId="9" pageNumber="40" pagination="21 - 36" title="Foliicolous lichens from valdivian temperate rain forest of Chile and Argentina: evidence of an austral element, with the description of seven new taxa." url="https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1466-822x.2003.00319.x" volume="12" year="2003">Lücking et al. 2003</bibRefCitation>
, 
<bibRefCitation author="Lu ̈ cking, R" journalOrPublisher="New York Botanical Garden Press, New York" pageId="9" pageNumber="40" title="Foliicolous Lichenized Fungi (Flora Neotropica Vol. 103)." year="2008">Lücking 2008</bibRefCitation>
).
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="37">
With respect to aggregated pycnidia, four other species of 
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have aggregated pycnidia developing as in similarly with 
<taxonomicName class="Dothideomycetes" family="Strigulaceae" genus="Strigula" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Strigula guangxiensis" order="Strigulales" pageId="6" pageNumber="37" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="species" species="guangxiensis">Strigula guangxiensis</taxonomicName>
: 
<taxonomicName class="Dothideomycetes" family="Strigulaceae" genus="Strigula" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Strigula schizospora" order="Strigulales" pageId="6" pageNumber="37" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="species" species="schizospora">Strigula schizospora</taxonomicName>
, which can be distinguished by the smaller ascospores (8-12 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
2-2.5 
<normalizedToken originalValue="μm">μm</normalizedToken>
), usually breaking into parts while still within the asci, and the smaller macroconidia (4-6 
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1.5-2 
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) (
<bibRefCitation author="Santesson, R" journalOrPublisher="Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses" pageId="9" pageNumber="40" pagination="1 - 590" title="Foliicolous lichens I. A revision of the taxonomy of the obligately foliicolous, lichenized fungi." volume="12" year="1952">Santesson 1952</bibRefCitation>
); 
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P.M. McCarthy, has smaller, narrow ascospores (10-14 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
1.5-2.5 
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), with cells of equal size and smaller, and non-septate macroconidia (6-8 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
1-2 
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) (
<bibRefCitation author="McCarthy, PM" journalOrPublisher="Flora of Australia" pageId="9" pageNumber="40" pagination="570 - 601" title="Strigulaceae." volume="57" year="2009">McCarthy 2009</bibRefCitation>
); 
<taxonomicName class="Dothideomycetes" family="Strigulaceae" genus="Strigula" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Strigula novae-zelandiae" order="Strigulales" pageId="6" pageNumber="37" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="species" species="novae-zelandiae">Strigula novae-zelandiae</taxonomicName>
(Nag Raj) 
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., characterised by the circular thalli with a crenulate to deeply digitate margin and especially the pycnidia producing polarilocular macroconidia (
<bibRefCitation author="Serusiaux, E" journalOrPublisher="Bryologist" pageId="9" pageNumber="40" pagination="147 - 152" title="Further observations on the lichen genus Strigula in New Zealand." url="https://doi.org/10.1639/0007-2745(1998)101[147:footlg]2.0.co;2" volume="101" year="1998">
<normalizedToken originalValue="Sérusiaux">Serusiaux</normalizedToken>
1998
</bibRefCitation>
); and 
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, which has a thinner thallus (20-30 
<normalizedToken originalValue="μm">μm</normalizedToken>
thick) and longer asci (60-70 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
8-11 
<normalizedToken originalValue="μm">μm</normalizedToken>
) (
<bibRefCitation author="Lu ̈ cking, R" journalOrPublisher="New York Botanical Garden Press, New York" pageId="9" pageNumber="40" title="Foliicolous Lichenized Fungi (Flora Neotropica Vol. 103)." year="2008">Lücking 2008</bibRefCitation>
). According to our phylogenetic analyses, even though the differences in morphology are subtle, the species are readily separated in the molecular phylograms (Figure 1).
</paragraph>
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Figure 3. The new species 
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(holotype, 
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0138040). a Thallus with perithecia b Thallus with pycnidia c, d Perithecia e Asci with eight biseriate ascospores f Ascospores, with distal cell slightly enlarged g Macroconidia; h Microconidia. Scale bars: a, b = 100 
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; c, d = 50 
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; e, f, g, h = 10 
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.
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