Analysis of lichen secondary chemistry doubled the number of Cetrelia W. L. Culb. & C. F. Culb. species (Parmeliaceae, lichenised Ascomycota) in Hungary
Author
Farkas, Edit
Author
Biró, Bernadett
Author
Varga, Nóra
Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, H- 2163 Vácrátót, Alkotmány u. 2 - 4 (Hungary) farkas. edit @ ecolres. hu (corresponding author)
edit@ecolres.hu
Author
Sinigla, Mónika
Bakony Museum of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, H- 8420 Zirc, Rákóczi tér 3 - 5 (Hungary)
Author
Lőkös, László
Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H- 1431 Budapest, Pf. 137 (Hungary)
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Cryptogamie, Mycologie
2021
2021-02-02
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2021v42a1
journal article
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10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2021v42a1
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1776-100X
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Cetrelia monachorum
(Zahlbr.) W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.
(
Figs 2
;
5C
;
9
;
12
)
It was not known before this revision as it was repeatedly misidentified before as either
C. cetrarioides
or
C. olivetorum
. It now turns out to be the most frequent
Cetrelia
species
in
Hungary
(
Fig. 9
).
The presence of atranorin, imbricaric acid (major) ± perlatolic acid (minor), anziaic acid and 4-O-demethylimbricaric acid is characteristic.
Cetrelia sayanensis
Otnyukova, Stepanov & Elix (
Otnyukova
et al.
2009
)
, a closely related species, has a slightly different chemical composition containing atranorin (minor), imbricaric acid (major), perlatolic acid (minor), divaricatic acid (minor)], anziaic acid (minor), 4-O-demethylimbricaric acid (minor), glomelliferic acid (trace) and loxodellic acid (trace). However, it has pustulate-capitate soralia with farinose soredia, while
C. monachorum
has only seldom laminal, capitate soralia and is further characterised by coarse soredia, 52.7± 5.6 µm in Hungarian samples [vs (35)40-55 µm diam. in
Obermayer & Mayrhofer (2007)
], small (50-150 µm), raised pseudocyphellae on upper cortex, but very rare or lacking on lower cortex.
Cetrelia monachorum
is most frequently collected from rocks (70%), but also grows on
Quercus
(14%),
Fagus
(6%),
Carpinus
(2%),
Acer pseudoplatanus
L. (1%) and on unidentified bark (7%) between
100-1000 m
a.s.l. reaching the highest possible elevation in
Hungary
(Mátra Mts). The species is proposed for the category near threatened (NT) in
Hungary
.