Polycauliona sp.

McMullin, Richard Troy, Simon, Andrew D. F., Brodo, Irwin M., Wickham, Sara B., Bell-Doyon, Philip, Kuzmina, Maria & Starzomski, Brian M., 2024, DNA barcoding aids in generating a preliminary checklist of the lichens and allied fungi of Calvert Island, British Columbia: Results from the 2018 Hakai Terrestrial BioBlitz, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. 120292-120292 : 120292

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scientific name

Polycauliona sp.
status

 

Polycauliona sp. View in CoL View at ENA

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: R.T. McMullin; occurrenceID: B6ED6743-9B56-5C36-9B9A-90CD92240CD1; Location: locationID: XII; decimalLatitude: 51.66040; decimalLongitude: -128.11688; Event: habitat: Saxicolous; Record Level: institutionID: CANL; collectionID: McMullin 19650 GoogleMaps Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: R.T. McMullin; occurrenceID: D9A25924-C6A2-51B7-9F4F-6E0D2DAC988C; Location: locationID: XII; decimalLatitude: 51.66040; decimalLongitude: -128.11688; Identification: identificationRemarks: Figure 4C; Event: habitat: Saxicolous; Record Level: institutionID: CANL; collectionID: McMullin 19716 GoogleMaps

Notes

This taxon appears to be consistent with Polycauliona sp. S39572 in Spribille et al. (2020). Its bright orange thallus and elongated lobes are morphologically distinct and its habitat in the supralittoral zone is ecologically distinct. Appears to be a novel taxon.