New records of lichenized fungi in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
Author
Ramírez-Roncallo, Kevin
Author
Gómez-Ramírez, Hugo
Author
Negritto, María A.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/16.6.1421
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10.15560/16.6.1421
1809-127X
Dibaeis columbiana
(Vain.) Kalb & Gierl
Figure 2D
Materials examined.
COLOMBIA
•
Magdalena
:
Santa Marta
, locality of
Minca
,
San Lorenzo
zone;
11°06.71′N
,
074°03.27′W
;
2250 m
a.s.l.
;
14 Nov. 2015
;
K. Ramírez
Roncallo leg.; KRR 92; CBUMAG:LIC:257.
Identification.
Thallus dimorphic, with crustose primary thallus, composed of compact granules, light gray to pale beige; podetia covered with smaller granules; apothecia single, balloon-shaped, pink to pale pink (
Gierl and Kalb 1993
).
Ecology and distribution.
Dibaeis columbiana
was recorded
in the departments of
Boyacá
,
Cundinamarca
,
Meta
,
Quindío
, and
Tolima
, in the páramos between 3000 and
3950 m
a.s.l. (
Sipman et al. 2000
;
Bernal et al. 2020
). In the SNSM it was recorded in the Andean forest, at
2250 m
a.s.l., expanding its altitudinal distribution range, on soil and rocks, in open and closed sites.