NEW RECORDS OF LICHENS AND LICHENICOLOUS FUNGI FROM KENYA AND TANZANIA (EAST AFRICA)

Authors

  • Edit FARKAS Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, H–2163 Vácrátót, Hungary
  • László LŐKÖS Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H–1431 Budapest, Hungary
  • Arthur M. MUHORO Doctoral School of Biological Sciences, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, H–2100 Gödöllő, Páter K. u. 1, Hungary
  • Nóra VARGA Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, H–2163 Vácrátót, Hungary

Keywords:

distibution of species, floristics, lichen-forming fungi, lichen parasites, new distribution records

Abstract

Hungarian collections of lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi from Kenya and Tanzania were studied analysing morphological and anatomical characters, as well as secondary chemistry by chromatography (HPTLC). Altogether 39 species of lichen-forming fungi and three species of lichenicolous fungi have been recognized and deposited in VBI. The lichens Bulbothrix kenyana, Chrysothrix xanthina, Lobaria discolor, Parmotrema durumae and P. taitae were discovered as new for Tanzania; Usnea abissinica and U. sanguinea are new for Kenya. The first records of the lichenicolous fungi Didymocyrtis cf. melanelixiae, Lichenoconium erodens and Spirographa lichenicola are presented from East Africa.

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Published

2023-07-06

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2023): Acta Biologica Plantarum Agriensis

Section

Research paper

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