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The lichen genus Umbilicaria on Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2004

L.G. Sancho ,
L. Kappen  and
B. Schroeter
L.G. Sancho
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biología Vegetal II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense, E-2840 Madrid, Spain
L. Kappen
Affiliation:
Institut für Polarökologie der Universität Kiel, Olshausenstraße 40, D-2300 Kiel, Germany
B. Schroeter
Affiliation:
Institut für Polarökologie der Universität Kiel, Olshausenstraße 40, D-2300 Kiel, Germany
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Abstract

Five species of Umbilicaria are described, three of which, U. africana, U. krascheninnikovii and U. nylanderiana, have not been previously recorded from Antarctica. Distributional patterns and morphological characteristics of these species are discussed.

Keywords

lichensUmbilicariamaritime Antarcticbiogeographythalloconidia
Type
Papers—Life Sciences and Oceanography
Information
Antarctic Science , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 1992 , pp. 189 - 196
Copyright
© Antarctic Science Ltd 1992

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