A world monograph of the lichen genus Gyalectidium

Authors: FERRARO LIDIA ITATI LÜCKING ROBERT SÉRUSIAUX EMMANUËL

Publish Date: 2001/11/01

Volume: 137, Issue: 3, Pages: 311-345

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Abstract

LIDIA ITATI FERRARO ROBERT LÜCKING EMMANUËL SÉRUSIAUX A world monograph of the lichen genus Gyalectidium Gomphillaceae Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society Volume 137 Issue 3 November 2001 Pages 311–345 https//doiorg/101111/j109583392001tb01126xSeventeen new species of Gyalectidium have been discovered in various parts of the world and those unexpected findings formed the starting point for a survey of the taxonomy and ecogeography of the genus The following species are described as new in this paper G areolatum Ferraro Lucking Neotropics G atrosquamulatum Lucking Kalb Kenya G australe Lücking Australia G conchiferum Lücking Wirth Chile G denticulatumLücking Costa Rica G fantasticumFerraro Lücking Neotropics G flabellatumSérus Australasia G fuscumLücking Sérus Africa and Papua New Guinea G gahavisukanumSérus Papua New Guinea G kenyanum Lücking Kalb Kenya G laciniatum Lücking Costa Rica G maracae Lücking Neotropics G membranaceum Sérus Lücking Canary Islands G minus Sérus Canary Islands and southern Italy G novoguineense Sérus Australasia G puntilloi Sérus southwest Europe and G verruculosum Sérus Australasia Calenia microcarpa Vzda Syn Bullatina microcarpa Vda Brusse is included in Gyalectidium as G microcarpum Vzda Lücking Sérus Vzda comb nov and G catenulatum Cavalc A A Silva Ferraro Lücking Sérus is treated as a species different from G ftlicinum Gyalectidium corticola Henssen is transferred to Calenia as Calenia corticola Henssen Ferraro Lücking Sérus comb nov A key to all 29 accepted species of Gyalectidium is provided The infrageneric phylogeny is constructed by means of a phenotypebased cladistic analysis and the systematic affinities of the genus are discussed accompanied by notes on the distribution and ecology of the species Apothecia are not yet known in several species including new ones

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