Labrocarpon canariense
Labrocarpon canariense (D. Hawksw.) Etayo & Pérez-Ort. [as 'canariensis'], in Pérez-Ortega & Etayo, Lichenologist 42(3): 272 (2010).
≡ Melaspilea canariensis D. Hawksw., Lichenologist 14(1): 84 (1982).
Index Fungorum number: IF 546217; Facesoffungi number: FoF11871, Fig. 1
Description: see Pérez-Ortega and Etayo (2010).
Material examined: see Pérez-Ortega and Etayo (2010).
Fig. 1 Labrocarpon canariense (≡ Melaspilea canariensis IMI 259313, holotype, redrawn from Fig. 2 in Hawksworth 1982). a Lirellae. b Vertical section of a lirellum. c Excipular cells with granular encrustations. d Paraphyses. e Young ascus with hyaline ascospores f Discharging ascus with brown ascospores g Ascospores (immature hyaline, mature brown). Scale bars: A = 200 μm, B = 100 μm, C, D = 10 μm.
Importance and distribution
Labrocarpon comprises only one species known on lichen thallus in Africa (Canary Islands) (Hawksworth 1982), Europe (Madeira, Italy, Portugal, Spain) (Calatayud et al. 1995, Hafellner 1995, Nimis 1993, Pérez-Ortega and Etayo 2010) and South America (Brazil) (Diederich 2003). Labrocarpon canariensis usually occurs on unidentified saxicolous whitish yellow crust that belongs to the genus Pertusaria (Pérez-Ortega and Etayo 2010).
References
Calatayud V, Atienza V, Barreno E. 1995 – Lichenicolous fungi from the Iberian Peninsula and the Canary Islands. Mycotaxon 55, 363–382.
Diederich P, Zhurbenko M, Etayo J. 2002 – The lichenicolous species of Odontotrema (syn. Lethariicola) (Ascomycota, Ostropales). Lichenologist 34, 479–501.
Diederich P. 2003 – New species and new records of American lichenicolous fungi. Herzogia 16, 41–90.
Hafellner J. 1995 – A new checklist of lichens and lichenicolous fungi of insular Laurimacaronesia including a lichenological bibliography for the area. Fritschiana 5, 1–132.
Hawksworth DL. 1982 – Melaspilea canariensis sp. nov. and other lichenicolous fungi from Tenerife. Lichenologist 14, 83–86.
Nimis PL. 1993 – The Lichens of Italy. An Annotated Catalogue. [Monografia XII]. Turin: Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali Torino.
Pérez-Ortega S, Etayo J. 2010 – Labrocarpon gen. nov. for Melaspilea canariensis, with the description of Buelliella protoparmeliopsis sp. nov. from South America. The Lichenologist 42, 271–276.
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