Revision of Immersaria and a new lecanorine genus in Lecideaceae (lichenised Ascomycota, Lecanoromycetes)
Author
Xie, Cong-Miao
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9973-3594
Key Laboratory of Plant Stress Research, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong, 250014, China
Author
Wang, Li-Song
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Heilongtan, Kunming, Yunnan, 650204, China
Author
Zhao, Zun-Tian
Key Laboratory of Plant Stress Research, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong, 250014, China
Author
Zhang, Yan-Yun
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0902-5066
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Heilongtan, Kunming, Yunnan, 650204, China
Author
Wang, Xin-Yu
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2166-6111
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Heilongtan, Kunming, Yunnan, 650204, China
wangxinyu@mail.kib.ac.cn
Author
Zhang, Lu-Lu
Institute of Environment and Ecology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong, 250014, China
612038@sdnu.edu.cn
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MycoKeys
2022
2022-02-15
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.87.72614
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.87.72614
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Lecaimmeria tuberculosa C.M. Xie & Xin Y. Wang
sp. nov.
Figure 10f-i
Etymology.
The name "
Lecaimmeria tuberculosa
" refers to the tuberculiform conidiomata.
Type
.
China
.
Gansu Province
:
Zhangye City
,
Sunan Co.
,
Along
the way from
Sunan
to
Qilian
,
3928 m
elev.,
38°37'N
,
99°28'E
, on rock,
30 May 2018
, Li-Song Wang et al. 18-58865 (KUN-holotype)
.
Description.
Thallus areolate, red-brown, continuous; areolae 0.5-1.3 mm across, slightly convex, epruinose; margin pruinose, often jade-green pigmented; prothallus not distinct. Upper cortex ca. 27.0
μm
thick, orange; epinecral layer up to 28.0
μm
thick, uneven, sometimes absent; algal layer ca. 50.0
μm
thick, cells 6.0-10.0
μm
diam., round. Apothecia frequent, scattered, immersed, 0.3-0.6 mm in diam.; disc red-brown, concave, epruinose; margin absent. Hymenium 55.0-83.0
μm
thick, colourless; paraphyses ca. 2.0
μm
wide, unbranched, not anastomosing; epihymenium 15.0-30.0
μm
thick, orange; plectenchyma ca. 5.0
μm
thick, discontinuous; subhymenium ca. 38.0
μm
thick, colourless; hypothecium brown. Asci
Porpidia
-type, cylindrical, eight-spored; ascospores 6.0-12.5
x
3.0-5.0
μm
in diam., ellipsoid, halonate. Conidiomata stellate, strongly convex, rarely immersed, forming tuberculiform, black, margin pruinose, jade-green pigmented; conidia 3.0-4.5
x
1.0
μm
in diam., oblong to bacilliform.
Chemistry.
Thallus K-, C-. Medulla I+ violet. No substances by TLC.
Ecology and distribution.
In China, growing on the Qilian jade or sandstone at elevations of 3900-4200 m in the alpine zone. This species is known from Qinghai Province and Gansu Province of China.
Notes.
Lecaimmeria tuberculosa
is characterised by its red-brown thallus, the jade-green pruinose colour at the margin of its areolae, its red-brown, concave apothecia without a proper margin and tuberculiform conidiomata.
Lecaimmeria qinghaiensis
is similar to
L. tuberculosa
(see notes for
L. qinghaiensis
).
Lecaimmeria tuberculosa
usually grows on jade and, interestingly, the margin of the conidiomata and areolae of the species are heavily jade-green pigmented.
Lecaimmeria iranica
resembles
L. tuberculosa
by the absence of an apothecial margin, but differs in its immersed conidiomata and the white margin of its areolae.
Specimens examined (KUN).
China
.
Qinghai Province
:
Gande Co.
,
Qingzhen Village
,
4124 m
elev.,
34°11'N
,
100°12'E
, on rock, 2020, Li-Song Wang et al.
20-68077, 4145 m
elev., Li-Song Wang et al. 20-68055
.
Gansu Province
:
Zhangye City
,
Sunan Co.
, along the way from
Sunan
to
Qilian
,
3928 m
elev.,
38°37'N
,
99°28'E
, on rock, 2018, Li-Song Wang et al. 18-58856, 18-58857, 18-58865, 18-59835
.