A new species of foliicolous lichenized fungi from southwest China: Calopadia ruiliensissp. nov.

Authors

Hai-Xia Wu
Wei-Bin Ren
Xin-Hao Li
Zi-Xiang Yang

DOI

10.3906/bot-2101-32

Abstract

Calopadia ruiliensis, found on living leaves in southwest China, is described as a new species, based on morphology and phylogenetic analysis. It is characterized by a foliicolous thallus with yellow greenish to creamy yellow color, rounded apothecia with nonpruinose to thinly pruinose disc, a dark olive-green hypothecium and black-brown subhymenium, and 1-spored asci producing muriform ascospores. Phylogenetic analysis of LSU sequence data shows that the new species clusters in the genus Calopadia with high bootstrap support. The new species is compared with closely related and similar species of Calopadia and a comprehensive description and micrographs are provided.

Keywords

Pilocarpaceae, new taxon, morphology, phylogeny, taxonomy

First Page

371

Last Page

377

Recommended Citation

Wu, Hai-Xia; Ren, Wei-Bin; Li, Xin-Hao; and Yang, Zi-Xiang (2021) "A new species of foliicolous lichenized fungi from southwest China: Calopadia ruiliensissp. nov.," Turkish Journal of Botany: Vol. 45: No. 4, Article 9. https://doi.org/10.3906/bot-2101-32
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/botany/vol45/iss4/9