Five new Caloplaca species (Teloschistaceae, Ascomycota) from Australia

Five new species of Caloplaca, C. mallacootensis, C. montenegrensis, C. rexii, C. rossii, and C. subgyalectoides are described, illustrated and compared with closely related taxa

Hungarian lichenologists – a 60th birthday tribute

Edit Farkas and László Lőkös are internationally well known and respected Hungarian lichenologists. They did their best to maintain and to develop several aspects of the Hungarian lichenology, including biodiversity research on lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi, taxonomic revisions based on morphological, chemical and molecular methods, ecological, ecophysiological and conservation biological research, as well as investigations on history of science and bibliographical compilations. Hungarian lichen herbaria were enriched considerably by their various Hungarian collections as well as collections from tropical, temperate Asian and Balkan areas. We greet both of them on occasion of their 60th birthday anniversary and we shortly overview their scientifi c career and results publishing in more than 100 scientifi c papers, and similar amount of scientifi c and popular presentations. As key persons in traditional Hungarian lichenology, their keen and precise way of research might serve as a good example to their students and colleagues

Six new species of Caloplaca (Teloschistaceae, Ascomycota) from Australasia.

Caloplaca arandensis, C. archeri, C. craggyensis, C. queenslandica and C. wallabyensis from Australia and Caloplaca subsaxicola from New Zealand are described as new to science and compared with allied taxa

Contributions to the Teloschistaceae, with particular reference to the Southern Hemisphere

Thirty-five new species of the lichen family Teloschistaceae are described: Caloplaca aseptatospora S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. bartlettii S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. begaensis S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. burneyensis S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. cliffwetmorei S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. dorrigoensis S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, Caloplaca erichansenii S. Y. Kondr., A. Thell, Kärnefelt & Elix, C. ferdinandmuelleri S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. feuereri S. Y. Kondr., Kärnefelt & A. Thell, C. filsoniorum S. Y. Kondr., Kärnefelt & Elix, C. fraserensis S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. gintarasii S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. hafellneri S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. hnatiukii S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. hopetounensis S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. jackelixii S. Y. Kondr., Kärnefelt & A. Thell, C. johnwhinrayi S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. kaernefeltii S. Y. Kondr., Elix & A. Thell, C. kilcundaensis S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. maccarthyi S. Y. Kondr., Kärnefelt & Elix, C. magnetensis S. Y. Kondr., Elix, Kärnefelt & Kalb, C. marchantiorum S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. michelagoensis Elix, S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. occidentalis Elix, S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. seawardii S. Y. Kondr., Kärnefelt & A. Thell, C. seppeltii S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. stewartensis S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. subluteoalba S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. tibellii S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, C. yammeraensis S. Y. Kondr., Kärnefelt & Elix, C. yarraensis S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, Xanthomendoza kashiwadanii S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, Xanthoria angustata S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, X. kangarooensis S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt and X. yorkensis S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt. Two further names, Caloplaca wilsonii S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt nom. novum (Synonym: Callopisma aurantiacum var. subgilvum Müll. Arg.) and Caloplaca ochroleuca (Müll. Arg.) S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt comb. nova (Basionym: Blastenia ochroleuca Müll. Arg.) are proposed

Nipponoparmelia perplicata sp. nov. (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) from eastern Asia

A new species, Nipponoparmelia perplicata described from Korea and Russia, is segregated from N. laevior, from which it differs in having shorter and wider lobes that characteristically turn down towards the margins. The pseudocyphellae are inconspicuous, positioned along the lobe margins or on the underside. An improved description of N. pseudolaevior is presented, including new data on isidia with illustrations. A key to Korean Nipponoparmelia species is provided

A Revised taxonomy for the subfamily Xanthorioideae (Teloschistaceae, Ascomycota) based on molecular phylogeny

The phylogeny of the subfamily Xanthorioideae (Teloschistaceae) is re-analysed based on ITS, LSU and mtSSU sequences, including a new set of specimens representing 31 genera, of which five are proposed as new: Golubkovia, Igneoplaca, Langeottia, Scythioria and Verrucoplaca. Two new species, Ovealmbornia volkmarwirthii from South Africa and Gondwania sejongensis from Antarctica are described, illustrated and compared with closely related taxa. Eleven new combinations are proposed in the genera Calogaya, Cerothallia, Flavoplaca, Gondwania, Igneoplaca, Scythioria and Verrucoplaca, but the status of four earlier established genera, Pachypeltis, Parvoplaca, Solitaria and Xanthopeltis, remains uncertain and needs further studies