Mycobiology (Apr 2019)

Two New Corticolous Buellioid Species from South Korea

  • Dong Liu,
  • Sergey Y. Kondratyuk,
  • László Lőkös,
  • Josef P. Halda,
  • Min-Hye Jeong,
  • Jung-Shin Park,
  • Jung-Jae Woo,
  • Jae-Seoun Hur

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/12298093.2019.1607657
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 47, no. 2
pp. 143 – 153

Abstract

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Several buellioid specimens were collected from South Korea during field surveys and two new species are described based on morphology, chemistry, and molecular phylogeny. Buellia boseongensis sp. nov. is similar to B. polyspora but differs in having a UV + orange thallus and cryptolecanorine apothecia. Sculptolumina coreana sp. nov., resembles S. japonica, but differs in having a smooth entire continuous thallus, which reacts K–, a narrower excipulum, thicker epihymenium, narrower subhymenium, and in containing secondary metabolites other than flavo-obscurin and myeloconone. A key to the buellioid lichens reported from Korea is also presented.

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