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<mods:title>New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Ossowska, Emilia Anna</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Moncada, Bibiana</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Kukwa, Martin</mods:namePart>
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Sticta pseudoimpressula Ossowska, Kukwa, B. Moncada &amp; 
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 7" captionStartId="F7" captionText="Figure 7. Morphology of Sticta pseudoimpressula (holotype) A, C upper surface with laminal apothecia B, D lower surface E group of imbricately arranged apothecia with hirsute margins F tomentum and cyphellae. Scale bars: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960.figure7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/742342" pageId="0" pageNumber="131">Fig. 7</figureCitation>
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Differing from 
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in the presence of imbricately arranged and grouped apothecia with orange-yellow pruina along the margin of the disc, reacting K+ carmine-red and in the presence of a secondary tomentum.
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Morphology of 
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(holotype) 
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upper surface with laminal apothecia 
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lower surface 
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group of imbricately arranged apothecia with hirsute margins 
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tomentum and cyphellae. Scale bars: 1 mm.
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close to new road to 
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Primary photobiont cyanobacterial (
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). Stipe absent. Thallus irregular to suborbicular, up to 10 cm diam., moderately branched, with 3-5 branches per 5 cm radius, branching polytomous; lobes laciniate to flabellate, adjacent, plane, with their apices orbicular and revolute to involute and their margins entire to crenate, not thickened; lobe internodes (4-)7-10(-15) mm long, (4-)7-9(-15) mm broad; thallus coriaceous. Upper surface pitted to scrobiculate to rugose towards the centre, yellowish-brown with darker apices in the herbarium, with marginal line in the same colour, shiny; surface glabrous, without papillae and pruina, without maculae; marginal cilia present, abundant, fasciculate, light brown to dark brown, about 0.5 mm. Apothecia abundant, laminal, dispersed, often imbricately arranged and grouped, subpedicellated, with pronounced invagination on lower side, up to 3.5 mm diam.; disc red-brown to brown, sometimes greenish-yellow due to the presence of pruina, shiny; margin entire to crenate and hirsute, with white hairs and orange-yellow pruina. Vegetative propagules absent. Lower surface uneven, beige to dark brown towards the centre; primary tomentum dense to the margin, thick (long), spongy, soft, grey-brown to black with paler tips; secondary tomentum present, but sparse, pubescent, up to 30 
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long. Rhizines sparse, black, up to 0.5 mm. Cyphellae 1-20 per cm2 towards the thallus centre and 41-60 per cm2 towards the margin, scattered, irregular, cupuliform to urceolate with wide pore, prominent, below the level of the primary tomentum, with the margin erect, cream to brown coloured, without or with tomentum in the lower half; pore (0.5-)0.6-1.3(-2.5) mm diam.; basal membrane pruinose in the appearance, white to pale beige in older part of thallus; K- to K+ pale yellow, C-, KC-, Pd-. Medulla compact, beige-white, K+ yellow, C-, KC-, Pd-. Apothecia margin (ring around disc) and epihymenium K+ carmine-red. No substances detected by TLC, unidentified anthraquinone in apothecia.
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Upper cortex paraplectenchymatous, 20-40 
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thick, consisting of 2-3 cell layers with cells 6-22 
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diam. (with smaller cells in outside parts of the cortex), their walls 1-2 
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thick and their lumina rounded to isodiametric, 5-21 
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diam. Photobiont layer 60-110 
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thick, its cells 7-18 
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diam. Medulla 30-100 
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thick, its hyphae 3-5 
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broad, without crystals. Lower cortex paraplectenchymatous, 25-40 
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thick, with 3-4 cell layers; cells 8-18 
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diam., their walls 2-4 
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thick. Hairs of lower primary tomentum up to 1000 
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long, in fascicles of more than 20, hyphae unbranched to rarely branched, septate with flexuous apices. Cyphella cavity 100-125 
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deep; cells of basal membrane loosely packed consisting of cells without papillae or very rarely one. Apothecia biatorine, up to 700 
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high, without distinct stipe; excipulum up to 125 
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broad, laterally with projecting hairs, in groups to rarely simple, up to 0.5 mm, 5-6 
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broad. Hymenium 80-110 
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high; epihymenium 20 
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high, orange, with pigment granules on the top, without gelatinous upper layer. Asci 6-8-spored, ascospores fusiform, 1-3-septate, 28-35 
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8.5-10 
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.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="131">Habitat and distribution.</paragraph>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="131">Sticta pseudoimpressula</emphasis>
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is an epiphytic species, found in Bolivia at one locality at an altitude of 2250 m in a lower montane Yungas forest in the Department La Paz.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="131">Etymology.</paragraph>
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The name refers to the similarity in morphology to 
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.
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close to new road to 
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, 
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, elev. 
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cloud forest, corticolous, 
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, 
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14752 (LPB, UGDA)
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="131">Notes.</paragraph>
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is similar to 
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(Nyl.) Zahlbr. Both species have a pitted to scrobiculate or rugose upper surface with abundant, laminal apothecia and the lobe margins with abundant, light brown cilia. The tomentum is dense to the margin in the latter (
<bibRefCitation author="Moncada, B" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the Gateway Computing Environments Workshop (GCE), 14 November, 2010, New Orleans" pageId="0" pageNumber="131" refId="B34" refString="Moncada, B, 2012. El genero Sticta (Schreb.) Ach. en Colombia, Taxonomia, Ecogeografia e Importancia. Doctoral thesis, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota." title="El genero Sticta (Schreb.) Ach. en Colombia, Taxonomia, Ecogeografia e Importancia. Doctoral thesis, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota." year="2012">Moncada 2012</bibRefCitation>
). However, the two species are not closely related phylogenetically (Fig. 
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; Suppl. material 3: Fig. S1): 
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is clustered in a neighbouring clade with 
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B. Moncada &amp; 
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and 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="131">S. isidiokunthii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. In contrast, 
<taxonomicName family="Lobariaceae" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="S. pseudoimpressula" pageId="0" pageNumber="131" rank="species" species="pseudoimpressula">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="131">S. pseudoimpressula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
shares a common ancestor with 
<taxonomicName family="Lobariaceae" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="S. bicellulata" pageId="0" pageNumber="131" rank="species" species="bicellulata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="131">S. bicellulata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName family="Lobariaceae" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="S. peltigerella" pageId="0" pageNumber="131" rank="species" species="peltigerella">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="131">S. peltigerella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName family="Lobariaceae" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="S. sylvatica" pageId="0" pageNumber="131" rank="species" species="sylvatica">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="131">S. sylvatica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The differences between 
<taxonomicName family="Lobariaceae" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="S. pseudoimpressula" pageId="0" pageNumber="131" rank="species" species="pseudoimpressula">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="131">S. pseudoimpressula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName family="Lobariaceae" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="S. bicellulata" pageId="0" pageNumber="131" rank="species" species="bicellulata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="131">S. bicellulata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are discussed under the latter.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="131">
The morphological features that distinguish 
<taxonomicName family="Lobariaceae" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="S. pseudoimpressula" pageId="0" pageNumber="131" rank="species" species="pseudoimpressula">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="131">S. pseudoimpressula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from 
<taxonomicName family="Lobariaceae" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="S. impressula" pageId="0" pageNumber="131" rank="species" species="impressula">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="131">S. impressula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are the moderately-branched thalli and the laciniate to flabellate lobes. The apothecia in 
<taxonomicName family="Lobariaceae" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="S. pseudoimpressula" pageId="0" pageNumber="131" rank="species" species="pseudoimpressula">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="131">S. pseudoimpressula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are often imbricately arranged and grouped and produced orange-yellow pruina along the disc margins and reacts K+ carmine-red. A secondary tomentum is present in 
<taxonomicName family="Lobariaceae" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="S. pseudoimpressula" pageId="0" pageNumber="131" rank="species" species="pseudoimpressula">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="131">S. pseudoimpressula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but absent in 
<taxonomicName family="Lobariaceae" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="S. impressula" pageId="0" pageNumber="131" rank="species" species="impressula">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="131">S. impressula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. In addition, the cyphellae in 
<taxonomicName family="Lobariaceae" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="S. impressula" pageId="0" pageNumber="131" rank="species" species="impressula">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="131">S. impressula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are rounded to angular and urceolate with a wide pore, erumpent to suprasessile and the margins raised to involute. The latter taxon is widely distributed in Colombia, where it grows at elevations between 1500 and 3800 m (
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; 
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="131">
At first sight, 
<taxonomicName family="Lobariaceae" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="S. pseudoimpressula" pageId="0" pageNumber="131" rank="species" species="pseudoimpressula">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="131">S. pseudoimpressula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
can also be confused with 
<taxonomicName family="Lobariaceae" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="S. brevior" pageId="0" pageNumber="131" rank="species" species="brevior">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="131">S. brevior</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but that taxon has smaller thalli with abundant apothecia, tomentose margins and the lower surface is undulating, creamy white to light brown (
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; 
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). 
<taxonomicName class="Lecanoromycetes" family="Lobariaceae" genus="Sticta" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Sticta brevior" order="Peltigerales" pageId="0" pageNumber="131" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="species" species="brevior">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="131">Sticta brevior</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is known from Colombia (
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, 
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).
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