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<taxonomicName id="7402D672E723F658C56830FD039CD29D" ID-CoL="6P59J" LSID="825562" authority="M. Khan, A. N. Khalid, H. T. Lumbsch" class="Lecanoromycetes" family="Lecideaceae" genus="Lecidea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Lecidea aptrootii" order="Lecideales" pageId="2" pageNumber="27" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="species" species="aptrootii">Lecidea aptrootii M. Khan, A.N. Khalid, H. T. Lumbsch</taxonomicName>
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Figures 3, 4
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<paragraph id="4D2A543C797C17505F5E5FC91560BE7F" pageId="2" pageNumber="27">Type.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2110EA519AD226ECF4BE102F0D6A159B" pageId="2" pageNumber="27">
PAKISTAN. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Swat district, Gabin Jabba valley, 1600 m alt.,
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,
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, 18 Aug 2016, AN Khalid, GB-1 (Holotype LAH-35505).
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<paragraph id="E811239AB522CFC83D7BE5496B5FBE47" pageId="2" pageNumber="27">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Saxicolous, thallus irregularly areolate, apothecia epruinose, lecideine with persistent margin, asci with tholus, I+ blue, ascospores simple, ellipsoid with average size of 8-10
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4.5-5.5
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.
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<paragraph id="6857548AC15FEF329CA8F8FA442A61DE" pageId="2" pageNumber="27">Description.</paragraph>
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Thallus crustose, irregularly areolate, subcontiguous; prothallus usually indistinct, black when present; areoles flat, up to 1.2 mm in diameter and 300
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thick, uniformity in colour from centre to edge; surface rough, not shiny, greenish-grey to light brown; Cortex not clearly differentiated, up to 31.5
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in thickness; medulla I-, medullary hyphae thin walled, compactly arranged, 2.4-3.2
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in diameter; photobiont layer up to 63
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thick, algal cells 12.8-14.4
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; apothecia black, round to irregular in outline, up to 1.5 mm in diameter, lecideine, epruinose with slightly raised, black, thin and persistent margin, frequently present, disc black, flat to slightly convex, proper exciple thin, dark brown to black; epihymenium light brown to dark
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, 8-16
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; hymenium hyaline to olivaceous brown, (60)-70-98
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tall; subhymenium light brown to dark brown, Hypothecium darkly pigmented throughout, Asci clavate with distinct tholus, the tip I+ blue, 8-spored, 50-68
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12.30-16.70
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; Ascospores simple, ellipsoid, (7)8-10(11)
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(4)4.5-5.5(6)
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; paraphyses branched and net-like, 1.6-2.4
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wide, not expanded at tips; vegetative propagules and conidiomata not seen.
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<paragraph id="4589E472197BAA2E2EF994C376A6A65F" pageId="3" pageNumber="28">Chemistry.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="AF6154E9611DF852034DECAE32564E1F" pageId="3" pageNumber="28">Thallus K-, KC+, C+ Red, P-, UV-. Gyrophoric acid, schizopeltic acid and 2'-O-methylperlatolic acid were detected with HPTLC.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="06527E0B65F9C23EF71FEAAF9160E22F" pageId="3" pageNumber="28">Distribution and ecology.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2EA216D39E597C4B0BA3408DBA07C927" pageId="3" pageNumber="28">The species is so far only known from two collections in the Swat district in Pakistan, where the species occurs on exposed siliceous rocks between 1600 and 1900 m altitude.</paragraph>
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<pageBreakToken id="CE31C8B701076ADD1669358EFF0FA8BB" pageId="4" pageNumber="29" start="start">Etymology</pageBreakToken>
.
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The epithet &quot;
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&quot; refers to the lichenologist
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Aptroot who has contributed to the knowledge of lichen diversity in Pakistan (e.g.
<bibRefCitation id="5CCE1FC9B20425C78146FC690A28E1EF" author="Aptroot, A" journalOrPublisher="Herzogia" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" pagination="211 - 229" title="Annotated checklist of the lichens of Pakistan, with reports of new records." url="https://doi.org/10.13158/heia.25.2.2010.211" volume="25" year="2012">Aptroot and Iqbal 2012</bibRefCitation>
) and has indicated to the first author that the material from Pakistan might represent an undescribed species.
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<paragraph id="38D47D064741DCAD6CC984F74C21227D" pageId="4" pageNumber="29">Notes.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="20208521F5B678D62009F5A9A4444D70" class="Lecanoromycetes" family="Lecideaceae" genus="Lecidea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Lecidea aptrootii" order="Lecideales" pageId="4" pageNumber="29" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="species" species="aptrootii">Lecidea aptrootii</taxonomicName>
belongs to
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sensu stricto (
<bibRefCitation id="18B523F82DDE75EBBE613B4C16887486" pageId="4" pageNumber="29">Hertel 2006</bibRefCitation>
). The new species is a member of
<taxonomicName id="2C1EB8745530A2AF0A0320B09A0785F6" class="Arthoniomycetes" family="Arthoniaceae" genus="Lecidea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" infraspecific-rank="subgen." kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Lecidea (Lecidea)" order="Arthoniales" pageId="4" pageNumber="29" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Lecidea">Lecidea subgen. Lecidea</taxonomicName>
, according to the generic sub-classification as suggested by
<bibRefCitation id="6578089403026BD25FCC2D64F10EF7A1" pageId="4" pageNumber="29">Rambold (1989)</bibRefCitation>
. In the field, it looks like
<taxonomicName id="88F0CE8A3E30D797D93AD940B3D30C22" lsidName="L. fuscoatra" pageId="4" pageNumber="29" rank="species" species="fuscoatra">L. fuscoatra</taxonomicName>
with an areolate thallus and black apothecia. A microscopic study revealed it differs from that species in having smaller ascospores. Another similar species in the complex is
<taxonomicName id="21C958AD3E1F05C4E06ADF3FDB3BAF5A" lsidName="L. grisella" pageId="4" pageNumber="29" rank="species" species="grisella">L. grisella</taxonomicName>
, which, however, is readily distinguished by having a rimose rather than areolate thallus (
<bibRefCitation id="996508ED6C85F8C87FF573EE5D902B2A" author="Aptroot, A" journalOrPublisher="Lichenologist" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" pagination="293 - 296" title="Lecideagrisella sympatric with Lecideafuscoatra, differing in its rimose instead of areolate thallus." url="https://doi.org/10.1017/S0024282907006706" volume="39" year="2007">Aptroot and Van Herk 2007</bibRefCitation>
). Recently,
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has been reported from China, which might belong to
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and has ascospores 8-12(13)
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in
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(
<bibRefCitation id="0EFFED22782DE93F18DF78D51AA02ECF" author="Zhao, XX" journalOrPublisher="Mycotaxon" pageId="7" pageNumber="32" pagination="317 - 326" title="Five Lecidea lichens new to China." url="https://doi.org/10.5248/132.317" volume="132" year="2017">Zhao et al. 2017</bibRefCitation>
) that overlap with an average spore length for
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i.e. 8-10
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. Additional studies are necessary to determine whether the Chinese material belongs to
<taxonomicName id="24AFC6EF3E015CDE7B26F2ED4624FA81" lsidName="L. aptrootii" pageId="5" pageNumber="30" rank="species" species="aptrootii">L. aptrootii</taxonomicName>
or represents an additional lineage in this complex. Molecular data in
<taxonomicName id="8C63D70B06D5A5617EEDACB912978AAE" class="Arthoniomycetes" family="Arthoniaceae" genus="Lecidea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Lecidea" order="Arthoniales" pageId="5" pageNumber="30" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="genus">Lecidea</taxonomicName>
are helpful to interpret morphological features previously considered as intraspecific variation (Schmull 2011).
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The areoles of
<taxonomicName id="D56F3F061D8138C7A2F71409F119CCE6" lsidName="L. fuscoatra" pageId="5" pageNumber="30" rank="species" species="fuscoatra">L. fuscoatra</taxonomicName>
have a differentiated black or grey margin, in contrast to the black cortex, whereas in
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, the margins of areoles are concolorous with the areoles. This is a common feature of
<taxonomicName id="6FD62CD92F1356F8727ECBF1AB9A971D" lsidName="L. aptrootii" pageId="5" pageNumber="30" rank="species" species="aptrootii">L. aptrootii</taxonomicName>
and the recently described
<taxonomicName id="AF2CE536505D8326B8BEA86ACAA00C6B" lsidName="L. uniformis" pageId="5" pageNumber="30" rank="species" species="uniformis">L. uniformis</taxonomicName>
from North America (
<bibRefCitation id="9D46F42DF42A35CB6BF9B5F3AF245F0B" author="McCune, B" journalOrPublisher="Bryologist" pageId="7" pageNumber="32" pagination="115 - 124" title="New taxa and a case of ephemeral spore production in Lecideaceae from western North America." url="https://doi.org/10.1639/0007-2745-120.2.115" volume="120" year="2017">McCune et al. 2017</bibRefCitation>
). However, the two species differ in the branching of paraphyses and presence of tholus in the asci. Further, molecular data support that they represent distinct lineages (Figs 1-2).
</paragraph>
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Figure 1. Most likely phylogenetic relationship of
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and associated taxa inferred with ITS data based on rooting with
<taxonomicName id="5D0CE4F94F41F34A0A60314007735AA0" class="Lecanoromycetes" family="Lecideaceae" genus="Bellemerea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Bellemerea cinereorufescens" order="Lecideales" pageId="5" pageNumber="30" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="species" species="cinereorufescens">Bellemerea cinereorufescens</taxonomicName>
as outgroup. Branch lengths are based on the estimated number of substitutions per site.
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Figure 2. Phylogenetic relationships of
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and associated taxa inferred from ITS &amp; nuLSU rDNA data under maximum likelihood.
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was used as outgroup. Bootstrap values indicated at nodes.
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In addition,
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K. Knudsen &amp; Kocourk. with irregularly areolate thallus, light to dark grey upper surface and epruinose apothecia, might be confused with
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but the former has apothecia that are usually higher than areoles and rarely branched paraphyses with expanded apices up to 5
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(
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Knudsen and
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2014
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).
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Molecular analyses of ITS and two ribosomal loci (ITS &amp; nuLSU) dataset (605 and 1433 unambiguously aligned positions in ITS and two loci dataset, respectively) support the fact that the Pakistan collections are phylogenetically distinct from the morphologically similar
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and
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(Figs 1-2). In fact, the morphologically different
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forms a well-supported sister-group relationship with
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.
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specimen examined.
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<paragraph id="1B4F4040930DCB17897005D9224C3C8B" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Swat district, Malam Jabba valley, 1900 m alt., on rock, 20 Aug 2016, AN Khalid, MJ-3 (LAH-35506).</paragraph>
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Figure 3.
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in natural habitat.
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Figure 4.
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. Thallus and apothecia of the holotype.
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