Two new species of Caloplaca from Tadjikistan, Central Asia |
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| Authors: | Sergey Kondratyuk Ingvar Kärnefelt Imomnazar Kudratov Alexander Khodosovtsev |
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| Institution: | M. G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, 2 Tereshchenkivska str., 01601 Kiev-MSP-1, Ukraine. E-mail:;The Botanical museum, Lund Unversity, östra Vallgatan 18, S-223 61 Lund, Sweden. E-mail.;Tajik State National University, 17 Rudaky Str., 734025 Tajikistan. E-mail,;Kherson State Pedagogical University, 27, 40 Let Oktyabrya str., 7300-Kherson, Ukraine. E-mail. |
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| Abstract: | Two new species of Caloplaca are described, C. pseudocitrina (in the C. citrina group), which is characterized by rather long spores with a thin septum, and a squamulose thallus and C. akbarica ( C. saxicola-growp ) characterized by rather thick, brightly yellowish pruinose apothecia and a parapiectenchymatous proper exciple. The characters of the new species and their closely allied taxa are compared in tables and illustrated. |
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