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The recently described, terricolous and corticolous, sorediate lichen Lecanora flavoleprosa (belonging to the L. symmicta group) is for the first time recorded from the Carpathians. So far, this rare European species has only been reported from a few localities in the Austrian and Swiss Alps, and Fennoscandia (Norway and Sweden). In this paper several records from the Polish and Slovak Tatra Mts are presented, most of them found recently, but a few also discovered during revision of old material collected by Z. Tobolewski. The ecology and chemistry of the taxon, and differences from related sorediate Lecanora species are briefly discussed.
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Czarnota, P., Flakus, A. & Printzen, C. Lecanora flavoleprosa (Lecanoraceae, lichenized Ascomycota) found in the Carpathians. Biologia 64, 1066–1069 (2009). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-009-0180-x
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