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Psoroma nivale (Pannariaceae, lichenized Ascomycota) a new species with dark, elongate squamules and bacilliform ascospores from arctic Québec, Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2019

Alan M. FRYDAY
Affiliation:
Herbarium, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. Email: [email protected]
Arve ELVEBAKK
Affiliation:
Tromsø University Museum, University of Tromsø – the Arctic University of Norway, P.O. Box 5060 Langnes, NO-9037 Tromsø, Norway.
Frances L. ANDERSON
Affiliation:
273 Crouse's Settlement Rd, Upper LaHave, NS, B4V 0G4, Canada.
Jean Y. GAGNON
Affiliation:
Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs, Direction des Parcs Nationaux, 880 chemin Ste–Foy, local 2.5, Québec, QC, G1S 4X4, Canada.

Abstract

The new species Psoroma nivale is described from an area of late snow-lie in the Keglo Bay area on the eastern side of Ungava Bay, northern Québec, Canada. It is superficially similar to P. hypnorum but has a dark, brownish black thallus colour without reddish hues, much-branched, proliferating squamules, thick paraphyses, distinct but inconspicuous IKI+ ascus tube structures, and characteristic elongate, bacilliform, often asymmetrical ascospores. The new species is compared with possible related taxa and its systematic position discussed. A key to the species of pannarioid lichens reported from arctic areas of North America is also provided.

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Copyright © British Lichen Society 2019 

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