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Peltigera Phyllidiosa (Peltigeraceae, Ascomycotina), A New Species from the Southern Appalachians Corroborated by its Sequences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

B. Goffinet
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, Box 90339, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0339, USA (e-mail: [email protected])
J. Miadlikowska
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Ecology and Nature Protection, Gdansk University, Legionów 9, 80–441 Gdansk, Poland (e-mail: [email protected])

Abstract

The new species Peltigera phyllidiosa Goffinet & Miadlikowska from the Southern Appalachians, eastern U.S.A., is closely related to P. collina and P. neckeri. Like these species it has a glabrous upper cortex and black fingernail- or saddleshaped apothecial discs, but differs in its laminal phyllidia. Variation in nucleotide sequences of the Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) of the nrDNA repeat region correlates with the presence or absence of phyllidia, supporting the distinction of P. phyllidiosa from P. collina and P. neckeri.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 1999

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