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Spirographa Vinosa, a New Odontotremoid Fungus on Ochrolechia and Pertusaria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

Håkon Holien
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, Museum of Natural History and Archaeology, University of Trondheim, N-7004 Trondheim, Norway
Dagmar Triebel
Affiliation:
Botanische Staatssammlung Miinchen, Menzinger Str. 67, D 80638 Miinchen, Germany

Abstract

Spirographa vinosa Holien & Triebel is described from boreal spruce forest of Norway. It is lichenicolous on different species of Ochrolechia and Pertusaria. Within the genus S. vinosa is characterized by its 8-spored asci, up to 5-septate ascospores with obtuse ends and its apothecial pigments causing aeruginose and purplish reactions with KOH.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 1996

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