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Two new foliicolous species of Enterographa (Roccellaceae) from Kenya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2009

Kumelachew YESHITELA
Affiliation:
Institute for Integrated Natural Sciences, Department of Biology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Universitätstraße I, D-56070 Koblenz, Germany.
Eberhard FISCHER
Affiliation:
Institute for Integrated Natural Sciences, Department of Biology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Universitätstraße I, D-56070 Koblenz, Germany.
Dorothee KILLMANN
Affiliation:
Institute for Integrated Natural Sciences, Department of Biology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Universitätstraße I, D-56070 Koblenz, Germany.

Abstract

Enterographa fellhaneroides and E. meklitiae are described as new to science from Kakamega Forest in Western Kenya. The latter overgrows the thallus of a foliicolous non-filamentous Coenogonium and the former most probably has the same ecology. Both species appear to be closely related to E. brezhonega and E. epiphyllum.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 2009

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