Lichenes Terrae Kergueleni:-an Enumeration of the Lichens collected in Kerguelen Land by the Rev. A. E. Eaton during the Venus-Transit Expedition in 1874-75.

The lichen family Teloschistaceae is one of the larger families of lichenized fungi. Currently it includes one very large heterogenous genus, Caloplaca, with some 1000 or more species with a vast variation in morphology, anatomy and chemistry. The rest of the family is split into 10-15 smaller genera, each with 20 or fewer species. There is no modern classification of the family based on molecular data. Here we attempt a first phylogenetic evaluation of a large part of the family, including a total of 337 species. Of these, 162 were used in a combined phylogenetic analysis of the ribosomal RNA sequence markers nrITS, nrLSU and mrSSU, using Bayesian inference. We also analysed all species using nrITS data, split into four different analyses. As a result we propose a new classification of the family, where a total of 39 genera are recognized, of which 31 are newly described or resurrected. The new genera are: Athallia, Austroplaca, Bryoplaca, Calogaya, Cerothallia, Flavoplaca, Gondwania, Haloplaca, Orientophila, Pachypeltis, Parvoplaca, Rufoplaca, Shackletonia, Scutaria, Sirenophila, Solitaria, Squamulea, Stellarangia, Teloschistopsis, Usnochroma, Variospora, Villophora and Wetmoreana. Resurrected genera are Blastenia, Dufourea, Follmannia, Gyalolechia, Leproplaca, Polycauliona, Pyrenodesmia and Xanthocarpia. The species Orientophila subscopularis is described as new. A third subfamily, Teloschistoideae, is proposed to accommodate the genus Teloschistes and related genera, parallel to the two previously recognized subfamilies Xanthorioideae and Caloplacoideae. We also show the large plasticity in both morphological and anatomical characters between closely related species within genera, indicating the low value of these as evolutionary markers. The secondary chemistry is a better marker in some parts of the family. We recognize a large number of geographically delimited clades with clear centres of evolution, but often showing large variation in morphology and anatomy.

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“…Basionym: Lecanora elegans f. lucens Nyl. in Crombie (1876, p. 184). Based on the same type: Caloplaca lucens (Nyl.)…”

Section: The Generamentioning

confidence: 97%

A new taxonomy of the family Teloschistaceae

Arup

Søchting

Frödén

2013

Nordic Journal of Botany

211

256

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“…), Crombie's description is an extraction and modification in English of the Latin diagnosis sent to him by Nylander, who never wrote in English. Although Crombie (1876) subsequently published Nylander's Latin diagnosis in full, this is of no nomenclatural consequence because it appeared at a later date. However, as the diagnosis was prepared by Nylander, the lectotype should be selected from the specimens in H-Nyl.…”

Section: Mycobank: Mb519203mentioning

confidence: 99%

New species and combinations in Calvitimela and Tephromela from the southern subpolar region

Fryday¹

2011

The Lichenologist

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The new species Calvitimela austrochilenis Fryday and Tephromela superba Fryday are described: the former from several collections from southern Chile and one from Marion Island, and the latter from southern South America (including the Falkland Islands), Campbell Island, (New Zealand), and Antarctica. Four new combinations are also made in Tephromela: T. atrocaesia (Nyl. ex Cromb.) Fryday from Îles Kerguelen, Heard Island, South Georgia, and southern South America; T. atroviolacea (Flot.) Fryday from southern South America and Îles Kerguelen; T. lirellina (Darb.) Fryday from only southern South America; and T. skottsbergii (Darb.) Fryday, which is shown to be an earlier name for T. austrolitoralis (Zahlbr.) Kalb & Elix, from throughout the region. Lectotypes are selected for Lecanora atrocaesia and L. atroviolacea. The systematic placement of Tephromela eatonii (Cromb.) Hertel from Kerguelen, Marion Island and Bouvetøya is also discussed but the species is retained in Tephromela.

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“…Ecology and distribution . Aspiciliopsis macrophthalma occurs widely in the Southern Oceans, being known from Îles Kerguelen (Hooker & Taylor 1844; Hooker 1847; Tuckerman 1875; Crombie 1876, 1877; Bouly de Lesdain 1931; Lamb 1947; Dodge 1948, 1966; Imshaug 1977), St Paul Island (Nylander 1886), Heard Island and Îles Crozet (Dodge 1948; Dodge & Rudolph 1955; Øvstedal & Gremmen 2006), Marion and Prince Edward Islands (Ott et al . 1997; Øvstedal & Gremmen 2001) and southern New Zealand (Galloway 2007, 2008; D. J. Galloway, unpublished).…”

Section: Species New To Southern South Americamentioning

confidence: 99%