ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Sticta puebloensis (Lichenized Ascomycota: Peltigeraceae) a New species of Sticta from the American Southwest
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Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University,
Cordley Hall, 2701 SW Campus Way, Corvallis Oregon 97331, USA
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Independent researcher, 11108 Elvin NE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87112, Mexico
Online publication date: 2024-12-31
Publication date: 2024-12-31
Plant and Fungal Systematics 2024; 69(2): 195-204
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ABSTRACT
In a continued effort to dismantle the Sticta fuliginosa morphodeme of western
North America, we performed an extensive sampling throughout the mountainous regions
of the southwestern states of the USA: Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. Recent studies
have concluded the genus Sticta has extensive hidden biodiversity and is a large sub-cosmopolitan
species-rich genus that encompasses 500+ taxa and counting. The prior treatment,
incorporating all laminal isidiate species of Sticta into the Sticta fulignosa s.str. and Sticta
sylvatica s.str. morphodemes, was incorrect. Our data does not support those previous
treatments nor the broad application of European species concepts of isidiate Sticta in
Western North America. Instead, our 4-locus phylogenetic analyses support a narrowing of
that concept to a single species of Sticta that is neither S. fuliginosa s.str. nor S. sylvatica
s.str. and is a distinct species with a specialized ecological niche. This unique proposed
species is named and described here as Sticta puebloensis sp. nov.
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