Absconditella amabilis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ostropales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Lecanoromycetes Subclassis: Ostropomycetidae Ordo: Ostropales

Familia: Stictidaceae
Genus: Absconditella
Species: Absconditella amabilis

Name

Absconditella amibilis T.Sprib., 2009

Type: CANADA. British Columbia: Glacier National Park, Bear Creek Falls, 51°18'N, 117°25'W, 6 Aug 2005, Goward 05-659 (holotype: UBC).

Ecology and distribution: This species is known only from the type locality, where it was found on Tsuga heterophylla bark at 0.5-2.0 m above the ground in a waterfall spray zone with Parmeliopsis ambigua, Lepraria sp. and a species of the Micarea prasina group.

References

• Spribille, T., Björk, C.R., Ekman, S., Elix, J.A., Goward, T., Printzen, C., Tønsberg, T. & Wheeler, T. 2009. Contributions to an epiphytic lichen flora of northwest North America: I. Eight new species from British Columbia inland rain forests. The Bryologist 112(1): 109–137. DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-112.1.109 JSTOR ResearchGate Reference page.  (Absconditella amabilis: pp. 111-113: color photos, page 112, habit: fig. 1A, ascospores in ascus: fig. 1C)
• E-Flora BC

Links

• MycoBank: MB 511748

Vernacular names

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