ORIGINAL ARTICLE
High lichen species richness in Polylepis australis forest: new
records from South America and Argentina
| 1 | Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas y Tecnológicas, Centro de
Ecología y Recursos Naturales Renovables. CONICET – Universidad
Nacional de Córdoba. Av. Vélez Sarsfield 1610. CP 5000, Córdoba, Argentina |
| 2 | Institute of Biology, Division of Plant Sciences, NAWI Graz, University
of Graz, Holteigasse 6, A-8010 Graz, Austria |
| 3 | Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (CONICET
– Universidad Nacional de Comahue). Quintral 1250, CP 8400,
Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina |
Online publication date: 2020-12-29
Publication date: 2020-12-29
Plant and Fungal Systematics 2020; 65(2): 386–402
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
The Polylepis australis forests in Central Argentina support a great
biodiversity in a relative small area. As a result of this study focusing on the
diversity and ecology of the lichen communities of these forests, we present five
new species for South America: Rinodina ficta, R. malcolmii, R. obscura, Usnea
glabrata, Tetramelas triphragmioides and eight taxa new for Argentina: Calicium
abietinum, Erioderma leylandii subsp. leylandii, Leptogium microstictum, Phaeophyscia
endococcinodes, Rinodina dolichospora, R. intermedia, Usnea cirrosa
and U. flavocardia. Unidentified Usnea species, similar to U. silesiaca, were also
characterized and discussed.
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