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Four new species of Arthothelium (Arthoniales, Ascomycetes) from Africa and Socotra
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Abstract
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Four species of Arthothelium from Africa and Socotra are described as new to science: Arthothelium atrorubrum from Madagascar, characterized by irregularly rounded blackish ascomata with a deeply red hypothecium and submuriform ascospores; Arthothelium aurantiacopruinosum from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, characterized by black, irregularly rounded to stellate, orange pruinose ascomata and muriform ascospores with two larger terminal cells; Arthothelium frischianum from Madagascar, characterized by brownish-black minute irregular ascomata with remnants of thallus and muriform ascospores with one larger terminal cell; Arthothelium miesii from Socotra (Yemen), characterized by a thick thallus, immersed, stellate to cerebriform, brownish, greyish pruinose ascomata and submuriform ascospores. A key to all reported species of Arthothelium from tropical Africa (South Africa excluded) and Socotra is provided. |
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Language
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English
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Phytotaxa. - Auckland, N.Z., 2009, currens
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Publication
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Auckland, N.Z.
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Magnolia Press
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2017
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1179-3155
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1179-3163
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DOI
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10.11646/PHYTOTAXA.331.1.3
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331
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(2017)
, p. 51-64
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ISI
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000417892900003
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