Bulbothrix ventricosa (Hale & Kurok.) Hale

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 : 1423

Bulbothrix ventricosa (Hale & Kurok.) Hale

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Materials examined. COLOMBIA • Magdalena, Santa Marta, locality of Minca, Bella Vista village , Villa Kelly coffee farm; 11°05.67′N, 074°04.87′W; 1550 m a.s.l.; 28 Jun. 2017; K. Ramírez Roncallo leg.; KRR 231; CBUMAG:LIC:403; KRR 245; CBUMAG:LIC:417 • Santa Marta, locality of Minca, Bella Vista village , Villa del Sol coffee farm; 11°05.95′N, 074°04.75′W; 1600 m a.s.l.; 29 Jun. 2017; K. Ramírez Roncallo leg.; KRR 431; CBUMAG:LIC:603; KRR 442; CBUMAG:LIC:614 .

Identification. Thallus laciniate and corticolous, with laminar to marginal ciliary bulbs. Isidia abundant and concolorous, brown to black lower cortex, and presence of nordistic acid in the medulla (K + yellow → orange) ( Benatti 2012).

Ecology and distribution. Bulbothrix ventricosa was recorded only in the Central Cordillera in Risaralda department, at between 1500 and 1725 m a.s.l., but its presence is assumed for the rest of the Colombian Andean region ( Wolf 1993; Bernal et al. 2020). In the SNSM it was found on bark in coffee crops in sub-Andean forest between 1550-1600 m a.s.l.