Lecanoroid lichens in the Galapagos Islands: the genera Lecanora, Protoparmeliopsis, and Vainionora (Lecanoraceae, Lecanoromycetes)
Author
Bungartz, Frank
Biodiversity Integration Knowledge Center, Arizona State University, PO Box 874108, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 - 4108, USA; & Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands, Puerto Ayora, Ecuador; & Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO), Quito, Ecuador. frank. bungartz @ gmail. com
frank.bungartz@gmail.com
Author
Elix, John A.
Research School of Chemistry, Building 137, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. john. elix @ anu. edu. au
john.elix@anu.edu.au
Author
Printzen, Christian
Biodiversity Integration Knowledge Center, Arizona State University, PO Box 874108, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 - 4108, USA; & Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Abteilung Botanik und Molekulare Evolutionsforschung, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. christian. printzen @ senckenberg. de & Biodiversity Integration Knowledge Center, Arizona State University, PO Box 874108, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 - 4108, USA;
christian.printzen@senckenberg.de
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Phytotaxa
2020
2020-02-04
431
1
1
85
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.431.1.1
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.431.1.1
1179-3163
Lecanora glaucovirens
Tuck. (1877: 172) MycoBank
no. 388358
Type
:
Hassler Expedition (
FH
), coll.
Rev. T. Hill.
Weber (1986
, p. 489) doubts that the
type
specimen deposited in the Farlow Herbarium (
FH-TUCK 197145
) was actually collected in
Galapagos
.
He
annotated the specimen as follows
:
“This is a
Lecidea
(sect.
Biatora
)
. Determination of the species will have to await more study of the tropical corticolous species. I have strong doubts that this actually came from the
Galapagos
having nothing like it from my extensive collections there. The fragment of
Xanthoria parietina
, not yet found in
Galapagos
, is further indication of incorrect labeling. Several other proven cases from the Hassler Expedition are:
Pertusaria colobina
Tuck.
and
Placopsis cribellans
.” W.A. Weber,
May 1966
.
We agree with this assessment. The material does not belong to
Lecanora
s.str.
and we have never seen material from the
Galapagos
even remotely similar to the FH specimen, neither in the field nor among herbarium specimens.