Ocellularia erodens (R.C. Harris) Kraichak, Lücking & Lumbsch

Guzow-Krzemińska, Beata, Flakus, Adam, Kosecka, Magdalena, Jabłońska, Agnieszka, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela & Kukwa, Martin, 2019, New species and records of lichens from Bolivia, Phytotaxa 397 (4), pp. 257-279 : 270-271

* Ocellularia erodens (R.C. Harris) Kraichak, Lücking & Lumbsch

This species has been reported from Cuba, Panama Peru, USA and Venezuela ( Lücking et al. 2011; Rivas Plata & Lücking 2013; Rivas Plata et al. 2013; Kraichak et al. 2014).

All our specimens were sterile and sorediate. ITS, mrSSU and nucLSU markers were sequenced from five samples (Kukwa 19258, 19754, 19732, 19568, 19668; Tab. 1). ITS sequences for four of these (Kukwa 19258, 19754, 19732, 19568) show 93% of identity (using BLASTn search) to the sequence of O. urceolaris Ach. (GenBank accession no. AJ508680). The mrSSU sequences of all samples showed 98–99% of identity to two sequences of O. erodens (GenBank accession nos JX421526 and JX421523) and O. auberianoides (Nyl.) Müll. Arg. (GenBank accession nos JX421549 and JX421548) and in the case of nucLSU 99–100% of identity to the sequence of O. erodens (GenBank accession no. JX421092) and 99% of identity to sequence O. auberianoides (GenBank accession nos JX421122 and JX421123).

The high similarity of molecular markers of O. auberianoides , O. erodens and O. sorediigera Kalb have already been reported by Lücking et al. (2011). They may represent one species with a variable size of ascospores and two reproductive modes, but this needs more molecular data and will be discussed in a forthcoming paper.

Material examined. BOLIVIA. Dept. La Paz: Prov. Abel Iturralde, between Ixiamas and Tumupasa , Orrilla de Cuñaca , 13°56’42”S, 68°02’00”W, elev. 335 m, natural Preandean Amazon forest , corticolous, 23 May 2017, M. Kukwa 19568 ( LPB, UGDA) ; between Santa Rosa de Maravillas and Tumupasa, 13°58’43”S, 67°58’14”W, elev. 300 m, natural Preandean Amazon forest , corticolous, 25 May 2017, M. Kukwa 197 32 & 19754 ( LPB, UGDA) ; SE of Tumupasa, Jardin Botánico UMSA, 14°09’46”S, 67°52’02”W, elev. 400 m, semi-natural Preandean Amazon forest , by the road, partly cut, corticolous, 24 May 2017, M. Kukwa 19668 ( LPB, UGDA) ; Dept. Santa Cruz: Prov. Ichilo, Parque Nacional y Área Natural de Manejo Integrado Amboró , Sendero a la Cascada, near Villa Amboró , 17°44’02”S, 63°35’05”W, elev. 470 m, transition Chaqueño-Amazon forest , in a valley, corticolous, 11 May 2017, M. Kukwa 19258 ( LPB, UGDA) .