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The Genus Sarcogyne (Acarosporaceae) in Antarctica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

R. D. Seppelt
Affiliation:
Australian Antarctic Division, Channel Highway, Kingston 7050, Tasmania, Australia.
P. L. Nimis
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Biologia, Via Giorgieri 10, I-43127, Trieste, Italy.
M. Castello
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Biologia, Via Giorgieri 10, I-43127, Trieste, Italy.

Abstract

Sarcogyne angulosa C. W. Dodge & G. E. Baker, described as an endemic from continental Antarctic localities, is reduced to synonymy with S. privigna (Ach.) A. Massal., a species known from Europe, North America, North Africa and Saudi Arabia, and now Antarctica. The relationship to Polysporina simplex (Davies) Vězda is discussed. It is suggested that the name Sarcogyne grisea Dodge, also described as an Antarctic endemic, should be abandoned. Sarcogyne medusula Dodge is transferred to Lecidea [Lecidea medusula (C. W. Dodge) Hertel comb, nov.], a Maritime- and Subantarctic species.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 1992

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