Frutidella furfuracea (Anzi) M.Westb. & M.Svensson

Svensson, Mans, Ekman, Stefan, Klepsland, Jon T., Nordin, Anders, Goeran Thor,, Hirschheydt, Gesa von, Jonsson, Fredrik, Knutsson, Tommy, Lif, Mattias, Toby Spribille, & Westberg, Martin, 2017, Taxonomic novelties and new records of Fennoscandian crustose lichens, MycoKeys 25, pp. 51-86 : 61-62

Frutidella furfuracea (Anzi) M.Westb. & M.Svensson comb. nov.

Biatora furfuracea Anzi, Comment. Soc. Crittog. Ital. 2: 13 (1864). Biatora amaurospoda Anzi, Comment. Soc. Crittog. Ital. 2: 13 (1864), nom. inval. [ICN Art. 32.1a] or nom. illeg. [ICN Art. 52.1]. Lecidea furfuracea (Anzi) Jatta, Sylloge Lich. Ital. 326 (1900), non Pers., nom. illeg. [ICN Art. 53.1]. Lecidea anziana Zahlbr., Cat. Lich. Univ. 3: 733 (1925). - Type: Italy, Lombardy, "sui tronchi marcidi dei pini nell’ alpe Suena, Bormio", M. Anzi [?] (MOD, lectotype selected by Printzen 1995 [ICN Art. 9.9], not seen; UPS L-202807, isolectotype, seen by MW and MS).

Biatora pullata Norman, Öfvers. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Förhandl. 27: 803 (1870). Lecidea pullata (Norman) Th.Fr., Lichenogr. Scand. 2: 471 (1874). Frutidella pullata (Norman) Schmull, Mycologia 103: 990 (2011). - Type: Norway, Nordland, Maalselven, ad Kirkennaes convallis, J. M. Norman, (BG, syntype, not seen).

Lecidea perobscurans Nyl., Flora 58: 11 (1875). - Type: Finland, Korpilahti, Soima, supra cort[icem] Betulae vetust[um], 1873, E. A. Vainio, (TUR-V 22982, lectotype, selected by Printzen 1995 [ICN Art. 9.9], not seen; H, H-NYL 21097, isotypes, not seen).

Lecidea ostrogothensis Nyl. in Hulting, Bot. Not. 1892: 123 (1892). - Type: Sweden, Ostrogothia, Kvarsebo, ad cortices ligna Pini silvestris, 1891, J. Hulting (H-NYL 21210, holotype, not seen).

Remarks.

The complicated nomenclature of this species was clarified by Jørgensen et al. (2002, see also Printzen 1995). In summary, the oldest name is Biatora furfuracea , validly and legitimately described in 1864, while B. amaurospoda is either an invalid or illegitimate name (depending on whether it is considered effectively published or not). Lecidea furfuracea (Anzi) Jatta is, however, not available in Lecidea because of the existence of an earlier homonym, L. furfuracea Pers., described in 1826. As pointed out by Jørgensen et al. (2002), the younger synonym L. pullata should therefore be used as long as the species is treated in Lecidea . However, when transferred to Frutidella , as was done by Schmull et al. (2011), the oldest epithet becomes available and F. furfuracea is consequently the correct name.