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Aspicilia tibetica, a new terricolous species of the Himalayas and adjacent regions

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A new species, Aspicilia tibetica Sohrabi & Owe-Larss., is described from Tibet, where it grows on soil and plant debris at altitudes between 4,600 and 5,400 m, and where it seems to be rather commonly distributed. It is characterized by a crustose, white thallus, 8-spored asci with small, globose to ellipsoid ascospores, a brown epihymenium, and non-moniliform to submoniliform paraphyses. It lacks secondary substances. The new species is compared with other terricolous Aspicilia species. Morphological, chemical, and phytogeographical differences between the non-vagrant terricolous species are summarized.

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Prof. T. Ahti, and Dr. S. Stenroos (both from Helsinki) for their invaluable information and discussions. We also wish to thank the herbarium curators who made many collections available to us. Special thanks go to Pirkko Harju (Helsinki), who helped us to make microtome sections from some species, and Sampsa Lommi (Helsinki) for adjusting the pictures at the last step and Masoomeh Ghobad-Nejhad (Helsinki) for help with drawing. We are also indebted to an anonymous reviewer for critical advice and helpful suggestions. The Iranian Ministry of Science and Technology financially supported the first author’s studies at the University of Helsinki and Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica for financial support of this study. The Chancellor of the University of Helsinki supported the first author’s travel to Austria and Sweden. The expedition of the last author to Tibet was financed by the Austrian Science Fund (project number P09663-BIO).

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  1. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 65, 00014, Helsinki, Finland

    Mohammad Sohrabi

  2. Department of Plant Science, University of Tabriz, 51666, Tabriz, Iran

    Mohammad Sohrabi

  3. Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 16, 752 36, Uppsala, Sweden

    Björn Owe-Larsson & Anders Nordin

  4. Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Holteigasse 6, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Walter Obermayer

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Sohrabi, M., Owe-Larsson, B., Nordin, A. et al. Aspicilia tibetica, a new terricolous species of the Himalayas and adjacent regions. Mycol Progress 9, 491–499 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-010-0656-7

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