Fulgogasparrea intensa Aptroot & M. Cáceres, 2021

Aptroot, André, A, Lidiane, Santos, lves dos, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2021, Saxicolous lichens in the semi-arid Caatinga in Brazil show substratum shifts, Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (11), pp. 181-189 : 183-184

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2021v42a11
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7815193
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EA637235-FFF6-1875-FC81-658BFE8CF859
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Fulgogasparrea intensa Aptroot & M. Cáceres
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Fulgogasparrea intensa Aptroot & M. Cáceres View in CoL , sp. nov.

( Fig. 2A, B View FIG )

Saxicolous Fulgogasparrea with thallus and apothecia intensely cinnaber red, thallus margins elongated, lobate, apothecia primordial.

MYCOBANK NO. — MB 839715.

GENBANK. — MZ198742 View Materials .

TYPE. — Brazil, Sergipe, Poço Redondo, Cajueiros , Trilha Ecoparque , 09°39’43”S, 43°40’18”W, on exposed granite, 15.XI.2018, M. Cáceres & A. Aptroot (holo-, ISE [ ISE48030 ]; GoogleMaps iso-, ABL).

DESCRIPTION

Thallus

Spreading, covering an area of up to 5 cm diam., c. 0.2 mm thick, continuous, closely appressed, rimose, cinnabar red; areoles angular, c. 0.5 mm diam., marginal areoles elongated, up to 1 mm long; some central areoles raised and somewhat warty, up to 0.4 mm high, with some punctiform dark depressions without differentiated structures.

Apothecia and pycnidia

Not observed.

CHEMISTRY. — Thallus KOH+ blood red.TLC: An anthraquinone.

ECOLOGY AND DISTRIBUTION. — On exposed granite in Caatinga. Known only from Brazil.