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Leptogium milligranum Sierk 1964

  • 1. Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, INBio, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Av. Costa e Silva, s / n, 79070 - 900, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil;
  • 2. Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, INQUI, Av. Sen. Filinto Müller, 1555, 79074 - 460, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil;
  • 3. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Av. Paulo Gama, 110, 90040 - 060, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil;

Description

Leptogium milligranum Sierk (1964: 290). (Figure 3C)

Holotype:— USA. New Jersey: Pasadena, on bark, G.G. Nearing s/n (F!).

Description: Sierk (1964) and Kitaura (2012).

Notes: Leptogium milligranum is characterized by the ridged thallus, covered by granular isidia. The isidia are darker than the thallus and coralloid.

Fertile specimens were not found in Mato Grosso do Sul, but, when present, the apothecia have thick proper exciple composed by paraplectenchymatous tissue and fusiform ascospores (Sierk 1964).

Distribution in Brazil: First record to Mato Grosso do Sul state, but the species was recently reported to São Paulo (Kitaura et al. 2017).

Examined material: BRAZIL. Mato Grosso do Sul: Aquidauana, Rodovia MS 450, on branch, 20°27’27.40”S 55°29’12.00” 188 m elev., 29 November 2014, S. R. Ramalho, F.M. R. Godoy, M.M. Morelli, P.P. Oliveira, A.A. Spielmann 44 (CGMS 47810); Campo Grande, Jardim Itatiaia, on cortex, 13 March 1991, I. Riquelme 0283 pr. min. p. (No. EQL 0454, CGMS); Vila da Base Aérea, on cortex, 19 June 1991, I. Riquelme 0288 pr. p. (No. EQL 0457, CGMS).

Notes

Published as part of Kitaura, Marcos J., Bernardo, Caique M., Koch, Natália M., Rodrigues, Andressa S., Torres, Jean-Marc, Barbosa, Thiago D., Canêz, Luciana Da S., Spielmann, Adriano A., Honda, Neli K., Fleig, Mariana & Lorenz, Aline P., 2019, Leptogium (Collemataceae, Peltigerales) from Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil: nine new records, three new taxa and a key for the species, pp. 127-146 in Phytotaxa 399 (2) on page 139, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.399.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13714341

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References

  • Sierk, H. A. (1964) The genus Leptogium in North America North of Mexico. The Bryologist 67 (3): 245 - 317. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3240893
  • Kitaura, M. J., Augusto, B. O. & Benatti, M. N. (2017) New records of Leptogium species in Brazil with identification key to insular species from Sao Paulo State. Current Research in Environmental and Applied Mycology 7 (2): 129 - 143. https: // doi. org / 10.5943 / cream / 7 / 2 / 10