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A new Lichenostigma on vagrant Aspicilia species

Vicent CalatayudE. Barreno

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AscocarpAspiciliabiologyHyphaArthonialesAscosporeBotanyFungusbiology.organism_classificationLichenostigmaEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsConidium

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AbstractLichenostigma radicans Calat. & Barreno, a lichenicolous fungus growing on vagrant Aspicilia species, is described as new to science from Spain. It is superficially similar to L. maureri, with cushion-like ascomata, but differing mainly by its ascomata connected at their base to immersed, brown, vegetative hyphae. Comments on the variability of iodine reactions of asci and ascospore walls, and on an associated conidial fungus with small bacilliform conidia, are given for L. maureri.

https://doi.org/10.1016/s0024-2829(03)00052-5