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A New Species of Peltula from the Sonoran Desert, Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

Burkhard Büdel
Affiliation:
Universitat Würzburg, Julius-von-Sachs-Institut, Mittlerer Dallenbergweg 64, D(W)-8700 Wiirzburg, Germany.
Thomas H. Nash III
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1601, USA.

Abstract

The new species Peltula sonorensis is described from the Sonoran Desert. It is found in several localities throughout the Mexican part of the Sonoran Desert and belongs to a distinct group within the genus Peltula, which is characterized by fairly large (up to 15 mm diam.), umbilicate-peltate squamules, growing individually and having ellipsoid to bacilliform spores.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 1993

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