A second species of Botryolepraria from the Neotropics and the phylogenetic placement of the genus within Ascomycota

Botryolepraria neotropica is described as new species from Bolivia, Cuba, and Peru. The phylogenetic affinities of the new species as well as of B. lesdainii are inferred by mean of the LSU and ITS regions of the fungal nuclear genome and Bayesian and ML phylogenetic inference. Our results showed that Botryolepraria belongs to the order Verrucariales, although the exact phylogenetic relationships are still unresolved.