Epiphytic Lichens of Conguillío National Park, Southern Chile

Abstract

One hundred and thirty eight epiphytic lichen species in 40 genera, are recorded from Conguillio National Park (38º30'-38º50' S; 71º30'-71º55' W), with predominancy of typically southern South American species. Lichen diversity is high, about 9 % of the lichen mycobiota from Chile, due mainly to species of the genera Bunodophoron, Menegazzia, Nephroma, Pannaria, Protousnea and Pseudocyphellaria. Levels of endemism are rather high (nearly 40 %); also austral and cosmopolitan species, about 19 % and 16 % respectively, are the most representative biogeographical elements in the Park.

Persistence of epiphytic lichens along a tephra-depth gradient produced by the 2011 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption in Parque Nacional Puyehue, Chile

“…We found diverse epiphytic lichen communities, similar to areas not impacted by the eruption (Redón 1974, Rubio et al 2013, had survived in close proximity (ca. 20-50 km) to the vent of the 2011 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption, despite up to 50 cm of tephra deposition (figure 1, tables 1 and 2).…”

“…20-50 km) to the vent of the 2011 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption, despite up to 50 cm of tephra deposition (figure 1, tables 1 and 2). We found 81 lichens species compared to 141 (Rédon 1974) and 183 species (Rubio 2013) found in floristic surveys of nearby Vicente Pérez Rosales and Conguillío National Parks, respectively. Our study encountered a large portion of this regional lichen flora considering we only sampled seven plots, further implying no large lichen die off occurred in the six months after the eruption.…”

Hispidopannaria and Phormopsora, two new and small, but evolutionary old Pannariaceae lichen genera from southern South America

“…Hispidopannaria hispidula is restricted to temperate rainforests, from mostly moderate altitudes, and from various phorophytes, rarely specified in label information. The species has been reported from scattered localities in central southern Chile (Zahlbruckner 1933;Räsänen 1937;Galloway 1992;Quilhot et al 2012;Rubio et al 2013) and corresponding latitudes of Argentina (Lamb 1958). The information from Chile given by Follmann (1965) as "abundant" and "ranging from the province of Cautín to the province of Magallanes," does not have support in his publications nor in his collections deposited at SGO, KASS, and B and studied by us.…”

New Insights Into Grausa: Reinstatement, Distribution and Affinities of Loasa Acaulis (Loasaceae, Loasoideae)

“…Climate is warm-temperate, with mean temperatures of 15.1 °C in summer and 6.0 °C in winter; precipitation ranges between 1500 to 2500 mm/year. Above 1400 m a.s.l., temperatures frequently drop below 0 °C and precipitations increase to 3000 mm/year (Rubio et al, 2013). Two volcanoes, Llaima and Sierra Nevada, have modelled the landscape through their activity and today the National Park hosts a great variety of ecosystems.…”