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Bicoloromyces kyffinensis: a new genus and species of lichen-inhabiting conidial fungi from 83°46'S

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2015

Bettina Heuchert ,
Leopoldo G. Sancho ,
Uwe Braun  and
David L. Hawksworth
Bettina Heuchert
Affiliation:
Martin Luther University, Institute of Biology, Department of Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Herbarium, Neuwerk 21, 06099 Halle, Germany
Leopoldo G. Sancho
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biología Vegetal II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Plaza Ramón y Cajal, Madrid 28040, Spain
Uwe Braun
Affiliation:
Martin Luther University, Institute of Biology, Department of Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Herbarium, Neuwerk 21, 06099 Halle, Germany
David L. Hawksworth*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biología Vegetal II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Plaza Ramón y Cajal, Madrid 28040, Spain Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Mycology Section, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew TW9 3DS, UK
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*corresponding author: d.hawksworth@nhm.ac.uk
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Abstract

The new genus and species Bicoloromyces kyffinensis is described as new to science from a sterile crustose lichen, perhaps Lecanora fuscobrunnea or Lecidella sp. from Ebony Ridge of Mount Kyffin, Antarctica. The fungus recalls superficially the lichenicolous species referred to Taeniolella, but differs in having semi-macronematous conidiophores, tissues encrusted with calcium oxalate, aeruginose to blue-black colouration under the microscope, and conidia which are distoseptate and formed in basipetal chains. Energy dispersive spectroscopy established that the encrustations were of calcium oxalate. Differences from genera of rock-inhabiting fungi described from the Antarctic are discussed. This appears to be the furthest south any lichen-inhabiting fungus has been reported.

Keywords

black fungihyphomyceteslichenicolous fungimerismatic fungirock-inhabiting fungiTaeniolellaTrimmatostroma
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Biological Sciences
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Antarctic Science , Volume 27 , Issue 5 , October 2015 , pp. 421 - 428
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