Lectotypification and synonymization of some Aspicilia species (Megasporaceae, Ascomycota) described by A. Hue from Korea and Japan
Author
Paukov, Alexander
Institute of Natural Sciences, Department of Biology, Ural Federal University, Lenin Ave. 51, 620000 Ekaterinburg, Russia:
Author
Nordin, Anders
Author
Roux, Claude
Author
Moon, Kwang Hee
Author
Davydov, Evgeny
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Phytotaxa
2017
2017-01-06
291
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.291.1.10
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.291.1.10
1179-3163
13698077
Aspicilia adamanticola
Hue (1910: 39)
Type
(
lectotype
, designated here):—
KOREA
. Nai-Hpyeng,
July 1906
,
R
. P. Faurie 221
(
LE
L-7526!,
isolectotype
BM
001107771 [digital photograph!]).
The species was described from the northern part of the Korean peninsula. In his description Hue mentioned similarity of
Aspicilia adamanticola
to
A. cinerea
. According to his view the former is characterized by a whitish, not truly areolate thallus and absence of the lateral cortex. The studied specimen contains norstictic acid and has spores and conidia which agree well with
Aspicilia cinerea
. The size of spores is (17.0) 17.7–[18.1]–18.4 (20.0) × (10.5) 11.3–[11.6]–11.9 (13.0) μm (n=10) and conidia are (16.0) 17.6–[18.1]–18.5 (21.0) μm (n=10). These data as well as overall morphology (
Fig. 1A
), thickness of hymenium (100 μm) and moniliform paraphyses makes us conclude that
Aspicilia adamanticola
is conspecific with
A. cinerea
.