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The first squamulose Thelocarpon species (Thelocarpaceae, Ascomycota) discovered in the biological soil crusts in the Bolivian Andes

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PHYTOTAXA
Volume 175, Issue 5, Pages 281-286

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MAGNOLIA PRESS
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.175.5.7

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biodiversity; lichenized fungi; Neotropics; Pezizomycotina; South America; taxonomy

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  1. National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR) in Poland, under LIDER Programme [92/L-1/09]
  2. W. Szafer Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences

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Thelocarpon andicola, a new terricolous species from the tropical Andes in Bolivia is described in this paper. This is the first member of the genus with squamulose to placodioid and yellow pruinose thallus, which is further characterized by non-amyloid hymenial gel, branched paraphyses, amyloid asci without visible mass axiale and broadly ellipsoidal ascospores.

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