Journal
ANTARCTIC SCIENCE
Volume 27, Issue 5, Pages 421-428Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102015000048
Keywords
black fungi; hyphomycetes; lichenicolous fungi; merismatic fungi; rock-inhabiting fungi; Taeniolella; Trimmatostroma
Funding
- Antarctica New Zealand
- Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia of Spain [CGL 2006-12179-C02-01, CGL 2007-64635]
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain [CTM2012-38222-C02-01, CGL2011-25003]
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The new genus and species Bicoloromyces kyffinensis is described as new to science from a sterile crustose lichen, perhaps Lecanora fuscobrunnea or Lecidella sp. from Ebony Ridge of Mount Kyffin, Antarctica. The fungus recalls superficially the lichenicolous species referred to Taeniolella, but differs in having semi-macronematous conidiophores, tissues encrusted with calcium oxalate, aeruginose to blue-black colouration under the microscope, and conidia which are distoseptate and formed in basipetal chains. Energy dispersive spectroscopy established that the encrustations were of calcium oxalate. Differences from genera of rock-inhabiting fungi described from the Antarctic are discussed. This appears to be the furthest south any lichen-inhabiting fungus has been reported.
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