Schaereria porpidioides
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| Taxonavigation: Schaereriales |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Schaereriaceae
Genus: Schaereria
Species: Schaereria porpidioides
Name[edit]
Schaereria porpidioides Fryday & Common, 2001
Type: FALKLAND ISLANDS. West Falkland, Mt Adam, UTM Grid 21F TC 8781, 670-700 m, fieldmark on summit ridge, 25 Jan 1968, H. A. Imshaug 41048 & R. C. Harris (MSC, holotype: BCRU, E, HO, M, UPS, isotypes).
Distribution and ecology: Schaereria porpidioides is known only from the collections made by Imshaug and R.C. Harris in 1968 from the Falkland Islands (Fryday and Common 2001, map page 112, fig. 7). From the collection details it appears to be a species of exposed siliceous rocks.
References[edit]
- Fryday & Common, Bryologist 104(1): 109 (2001)
- Fryday, A.M. and Common, R.S. (2001) A new species of Schaereria (lichenized fungi) from the Falkland Islands. - The Bryologist 104(1): 109–114. **[RLL List # 183 / Rec.# 22080] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (JSTOR) (Black-and-white photos of Schaereria porpidioides: pp. 110 & 111; fig. 1, habit; fig. 2, section of apothecium; fig. 3, paraphyses and dehisced asci; fig. 4, ascus and ascospores; fig. 5, dehisced ascus; fig. 6, squash of pycnidium)