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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-01-05
Page range: 143–146
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A new species of Pertusaria (Pertusariaceae, Ascomycota) from Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China

Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China Zhejiang Academy of Forestry, Hangzhou 310023, China
College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250014, China
Fungi Pertusaria Ascomycota lichenized fungi China

Abstract

Two species of Pertusariaceae are here described as new to science, based on material collected from Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, western China. Pertusaria tibetensis Z.S. Sun has broad lecanorate verrucae, pinkish pruinose discs, 1-spored asci and the presence of norstictic acid. Pertusaria beishanensis Z.S. Sun has broad lecanorate verrucae, black pruinose discs, 2-spored asci and the presence of planaic acid.