Heterodermia albicans (Pers.) Swinscow & Krog, 1976

Ramírez-Roncallo, Kevin, Gómez-Ramírez, Hugo & Negritto, María A., 2020, New records of lichenized fungi in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, Check List 16 (6), pp. 1421-1431 : 1425

Heterodermia albicans (Pers.) Swinscow & Krog Figure 2E

Materials examined. COLOMBIA • Magdalena, Santa Marta, locality of Minca, route from La Victoria to Pozo Azul ; 11°07.65′N, 074°06.16′W, 890 m a.s.l., 21 Mar. 2015, A. Daza et al. leg.; SLO080-2 ; CBUMAG:LIC:113 • Santa Marta, locality of Minca, Bella Vista village , Villa Kelly coffee farm; 11°05.62′N, 074°04.87′W; 1520 m a.s.l.; 28 Jun. 2017; K. Ramírez Roncallo leg.; KRR 277 ; CBUMAG:LIC:449; KRR 295 ; CBUMAG:LIC:467 • Santa Marta, locality of Minca, Bella Vista village , Villa Kelly coffee farm; 11°05.61′N, 074°04.88′W; 1510 m a.s.l.; 28 Jun. 2017; K. Ramírez Roncallo leg.; KRR 311 ; CBUMAG:LIC:483 .

Identification. Margin lobes wide, convergent, and crenulate; marginal soralia continuous ( Díaz-Escandón 2017). Ecology and distribution. Heterodermia albicans was recorded in the departments of Antioquia, Boyacá, Caldas, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Risaralda, Santander and Valle del Cauca, in lowlands and Andean foothills, at between 500 and 2700 m a.s.l., on bark, rocks, and wooden fences ( Wolf 1993; Simijaca Salcedo et al. 2001; Díaz-Escandón 2017; Bernal et al. 2020). In SNSM it was found on bark and wood in secondary forest and coffee crops in the sub-Andean forest between 890 and 1520 m a.s.l.