Two New Species of the Genus Candelariella from China and Korea

Dong Liu; Lisong Wang; Xin Yu Wang; Jae-Seoun Hur

doi:10.1080/12298093.2019.1583785

Two New Species of the Genus Candelariella from China and Korea

Mycobiology. 2019 Mar 23;47(1):40-49. doi: 10.1080/12298093.2019.1583785. eCollection 2019 Mar.

Authors

Dong Liu^{1

2}, Lisong Wang², Xin Yu Wang², Jae-Seoun Hur¹

Affiliations

¹ Korean Lichen Research Institute (KoLRI), Sunchon National University, Suncheon, Korea.
² Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.

Abstract

Candelariella is a widespread lineage of lichenized ascomycetes with ambiguous relationships among species that have not solved completely. In this study, several specimens belonging to Candelariella were collected from China and South Korea, and the internal transcribed spacer region was generated to confirm the system position of the newly collected specimens. Combined with a morphological examination and phylogenetic analysis, two new areolate species, Candelariella rubrisoli and C. subsquamulosa, are new to science. Detail descriptions of each new species are presented. In addition, C. canadensis is firstly reported from China mainland.

Keywords: Candelariaceae; East Asia; Taxonomy; phylogeny.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by a grant from the Korean National Research Resource Center Program [NRF-2017M3A9B8069471], the Korean Forest Service Program through the Korea National Arboretum [KNA1-1-22, 17-2], and by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31400022, 31670028, 31370069 and 31460005].