Upretia, a new caloplacoid lichen genus (Teloschistaceae, Lichen-Forming Ascomycota) from India

  • Sergii Y. Kondratyuk M. H. Kholodny Institute of Botany, Tereshchenkivska str. 2, 01004 Kiev, Ukraine
  • Persson Per-Erik Lund University, Department of Biology,The Biology Building, Sölvegatan 35, 22362 Lund, Sweden
  • Mats Hansson Lund University, Department of Biology,The Biology Building, Sölvegatan 35, 22362 Lund, Sweden
  • Gaurav K. Mishra CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow-226001 Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Sanjeeva Nayaka CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow-226001 Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Dong Liu Korean Lichen Research Institute, Sunchon National University, Sunchon 540-742, South Korea
  • Jae-Seoun Hur Korean Lichen Research Institute, Sunchon National University, Sunchon 540-742, South Korea
  • Arne Thell Lund University, Biological Museum, Botanical Collections, Box 117, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
DOI https://doi.org/10.21756/cab.v3i01.esp5

Abstract

New genus Upretia S. Y. Kondr., A. Thell and J. S. Hur is characterized by partly pruinose, lobate
to subsquamulose, olivaceous grey to brown thallus, small ascospores and narrowly bacilliform
conidia. It belongs to the subfamily Caloplacoideae of the Teloschistaceae and includes the
‘Caloplaca’ amarkantakana clade. The new genus is closely related to Ioplaca Poelt according to
phylogeny analysis based on ITS1/ITS2 nrDNA, 28S nrLSU and 12S mtSSU sequences. The
new combination Upretia amarkantakana is proposed Caloplaca amarkantakana Y. Joshi and
Upreti.
Keywords: Caloplacoideae, Ioplaca, molecular phylogeny, new genus, Upretia

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