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

Fryday, Alan M.; Elvebakk, Arve; Anderson, Frances; Gagnon, Jean Y.

doi:10.1017/s0024282919000288

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“…Park et al (2018) showed that no less than 10 species are known from Antarctica and also listed the four species reaching the Northern Hemisphere. Since then, two rare species have been reported from Alaska and arctic Canada (Elvebakk & Tønsberg 2018; Fryday et al 2019).…”

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Psoroma capenseandP. esterhuyseniae(Pannariaceae), two new alpine species from South Africa

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The new species Psoroma capense and P. esterhuyseniae are described from four alpine localities in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and are the only known Psoroma species from Africa. The specimens were all collected from moist sites near watercourses, on cool and mostly south-facing cliffs. Psoroma capense resembles P. tenue in gross morphology but differs in the ascending thallus squamules, lack of secondary compounds and short-ellipsoid to ovoid ascospores. However, a phylogenetic analysis involving the markers ITS, nucLSU, mtSSU and Mcm7, comparing the only recent collection of P. capense with previously published sequences, shows that it belongs to the P. hypnorum lineage, with no known, closely related species. Psoroma esterhuyseniae resembles P. hypnorum but has subglobose to short-ellipsoid ascospores without apical perispore extensions. The two species are thought to have evolved from one or two long-distance dispersal events during the Pleistocene.

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