ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Two new Micarea species (Pilocarpaceae) from Western Europe
1
Arafura 16, NL-5691 JA Son, The Netherlands
2
Evolution and Conservation Biology, University of Liège, Sart Tilman
B22, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
3
Department of Plant Taxonomy and Nature Conservation, Faculty of
Biology, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308 Gdańsk,
Poland
Publication date: 2020-06-02
Plant and Fungal Systematics 2020; 65(1): 189-199
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
Two new Micarea species, M. minuta and M. pseudotsugae, are described from
the Netherlands based on morphological, chemical and molecular data. Micarea minuta
belongs to the M. denigrata group and can be distinguished from other similar species
of this group by its small apothecia, Sedifolia-grey pigment in the epihymenium, mostly
1-septate and small ascospores, 40–80 μm wide mesopycnidia, and the lack of secondary
lichen metabolites detectable by thin-layer chromatography. Micarea pseudotsugae
is a member of the M. prasina group and is characterized by an areolate, granular to
subsquamulose thallus, the presence of methoxymicareic acid, the lack of Sedifolia-grey
pigment, the presence of crystals (visible in polarized light) in the apothecia only, and one
type of conidia (mesoconidia). The phylogenetic position of the newly described species
was studied based on mtSSU rDNA marker analysis; M. minuta was found to be closely
related to M. denigrata, M. nitschkeana and M. subnigrata, while M. pseudotsugae was
found to be closely related to M. byssacea and M. laeta. Notes on secondary chemistry,
ecology, distribution and phylogeny are given.
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