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

‘Hot’ and ‘white’ spots of lichen diversity of the Ukrainian plains (after geobotanical subprovinces and administrative oblasts)

Podolian-Middle-Dnieper geobotanical subprovince of Forest-Steppe zone and the belts of Artemisia-Gramineae Steppes and grass-Stipeta-Festuca Steppes of Priazov Black Sea Steppe subprovince of Steppe zone are the most well studied among twelve geobotanical subprovinces of the Ukrainian plains, while the lack of information on lichen species diversity found to be in Middle Russian subprovince of Forest zone and belt of grass-Stipeta-Festuca Steppes of Middle-Don Steppe subprovince of Steppe zone of this territory. Among twenty three administrative oblasts of the Ukrainian plains situated in twelve geobotanic subprovinces of three zones the highest lichen species diversity is found in Kherson oblast of the belt of Artemisia-Gramineae Steppes (464 species), Mykolaiv oblasts of the belt of grass-Stipeta-Festuca Steppes of Priazov Black Sea Steppe subprovince (389 species) of Steppe zone, as well as in Kharkiv oblast of Middle Russian subprovince (332 species) of Forest-Steppe zone of the Ukrainian plains on the basis of the Fourth checklist of lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi including 2,106 of the total Ukrainian lichens. The lower lichen diversity is hitherto recorded from Rightbank Polessian subprovince (the highest species diversity 296 species in Zhytomyr oblast) and Baltic Forest subprovince (281 species in Lviv oblast) in Forest zone of the Ukrainian plains as well as Podolian-Middle-Dnieper subprovince (287 species in Khmelnytsk oblast) of the Forest-Steppe zone of territory mentioned. Insufficient level of data on lichen diversity is recorded for Middle Russian and Podolian-Bessarabian Forest subprovinces of the Forest zone, as well as the belt of grass-Stipeta-Festuca Steppes of Middle-Don Steppe subprovince and the belt of Stipeta-Festuca Steppes of Priazov Black Sea Steppe subprovince of Steppe zone. The same rather lower level of data on lichen diversity is found in Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Chernihiv, Vinnytsia and Sumy of Forest and Forest-Steppe zones; in Poltava and Kharkiv, as well as Cherkasy, Kirovograd, Mykolaiv and Donetsk oblasts in Forest-Steppe and Steppe zones; in Odessa, Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts of Steppe zone, as well as Zhytomyr oblasts in Podolian-Middle-Dnieper subprovince of Forest-Steppe zone. List of the rarest taxa of the regionally unique group (hitherto known from single or a few localities) proposed as candidates for including to Red Regional lists of 22 oblasts of the Ukrainian plains as far the whole nature protection activity in Ukraine is provided

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

An artificial key to Australian Caloplaca species (Teloschistaceae, Ascomycota).

An artificial key to the 122 Caloplaca species presently known for the Australian continent is provided

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

New Caloplaca species from Australia.

Seven new species of Caloplaca are described, the isidiate Caloplaca clavatoisidiata and C. sipmanii, and five fertile species, C. bastowii, C. beaugleholii, C. dahlii, C. jerramungupensis and C. norfolkensis. The new species are distinguished from related species by morphological, anatomical and chemical characters which are described in detail. The new combination Caloplaca soredians (Müll.Arg.) Elix, S. Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt is made

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