Cladonia novochlorophaea (Sipman) Brodo & Ahti

Farkas, Edit, Lőkös, László & Veres, Katalin, 2023, Analysis of lichen secondary metabolites and morphometrics in the Cladonia chlorophaea species group (Cladoniaceae, lichenized Ascomycota) in Hungary, Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (5), pp. 61-82 : 73

Cladonia novochlorophaea (Sipman) Brodo & Ahti

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NOTES

The Hungarian specimens contain fumarprotocetraric and homosekikaic acids.

Their colour is dark to blackish brown,darker at base ( Stenroos et al. 2011, 2016; Ahti et al. 2013). They have medium sized podetia (2-11.6 mm high) and stalk (0.24-1 mm wide) with tall (0.4-10.5 mm) cup and medium diameter (18-81 µm) of granulose soredia. C. novochlorophaea differs from C. asahinae in cup height and podetium height related to cup width, from C. chlorophaea in podetium height, from C. cryptochlorophaea in cup height and in the ratio of the corticated part of the podetium to the height of the whole podetium and from C. merochlorophaea in stalk width and in the length of squamules.

None of the measured characters were significantly different between C. novochlorophaea and C. grayi ( Table 1 ).

C. novochlorophaea is a very rare species in Hungary and it represents a new distribution record to the country, collected on acidic soil between 250 and 450 m a.s.l. in the Bakony Mts, the Balaton Uplands and the Visegrádi Mts, lignicolous, while in NE Poland it was found on soil, wood and bark of Picea abies (L.) H.Karst. in open habitats and forests ( Matwiejuk 2017).

Figures

FIG. 15. — Cladonia novochlorophaea (Sipman) Brodo & Ahti: A, habit (BP[BP 9314]);B, spots of lichen secondary metabolites on chromatographic plates;C, distribution in Hungary. Abbreviations: H, homosekiaic acid; F, fumarprotocetraric acid; Z, zeorin; N, norstictic acid. Scale bar: A, 2 mm.