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Opuscula Philolichenum Issue Spanning: January – December 2012 VOLUME 11 ISSN #1941-7519 (printed) #1941-7527 (online) Opuscula Philolichenum Issue Spanning: January – December 2012 VOLUME 11 Published by J.C. Lendemer Bronx, New York, U.S.A. i ii Opuscula Philolichenum small works in the field of lichenology EDITOR: JAMES C. LENDEMER Cryptogamic Herbarium Institute of Systematic Botany The New York Botanical Garden Bronx, NY 10458-5126, U.S.A. e-mail: [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITORS: KERRY KNUDSEN CALEB A. MORSE The Herbarium R.L. McGregor Herbarium Dept. of Botany & Plant Sciences Division of Botany The University of California, Riverside Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas Riverside, CA 92521-0124, U.S.A. 2045 Constant Ave., Lawrence, KS 66047, U.S.A. e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] ___________________________________________ MISSION Opuscula Philolichenum is intended to serve as a venue for the publication of small works in the field of lichenology (including lichenicolous fungi and non-lichenized fungi traditionally treated with lichens). The central goal of the journal is to provide timely publication, in a professional format, free of charge to authors and readers. While the journal focuses on topics relating to the lichen biota of North America this is by no means exclusive and manuscripts on other topics will be considered as the table of contents of the present issue clearly illustrates. Authors wishing to submit a manuscript for publication in Opuscula Philolichenum should contact the editor prior to submission to confirm that the paper conforms to the mission of the journal (outlined above). Manuscript submissions should be left unformatted and authors should consult a recent issue of Opuscula Philolichenum for style. All submissions are subjected to review by at least two peer reviewers and, following acceptance are formatted by the editor. NOTICE FROM THE EDITOR When this journal began publication nine years ago it was among the first serials to take advantage of the internet when publishing new botanical nomenclatural acts. The journal was conceived as a primarily electronic one, available on-line free of charge (at http://sweetgum.nybg.org/philolichenum/), with a limited print run to satisfy the requirements for effective publication established under the International Code for Botanical Nomenclature. Since that time we have continued to publish the journal in this manner, printing one or two issues a year, with each issue consisting of between one and two hundred pages. In 2004 we could not have foreseen the revolutionary changes that took place at the 18th International Botanical Congress in Melbourne. There the Nomenclature Section voted to allow electronic only publication of new nomenclatural acts beginning 1 January 2012. In response to this change Opuscula Philolichenum no longer produces hardcopy. Although a single printed copy will continue to be deposited in the library of The New York Botanical Garden. Beginning with this volume (number 11) of Opuscula Philolichenum, manuscripts will be published electronically on-line in PDF/A format immediately following the approval of the authors in the post-review proof stage. The PDF issued online is considered to be the final version (= version of record) and the date on which the PDF is posted is considered to be the date of effective publication. In order to aid future workers the date of effective publication for each manuscript is provided in the table of contents. When a new manuscript is published online a record is also simultaneously transmitted to the organizers of Recent Literature on Lichens for inclusion in that database. iii THANKS TO OUR REVIEWERS As with all previous issue of Opuscula Philolichenum the backbone of a journal is its cohort of reviewers. Therefore we take this opportunity to thank those researchers who have generously agreed to review manuscripts submitted for consideration in the journal in 2012: Alan Archer – Sydney, Australia; Sean Beeching – Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A; Irwin Brodo – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Stephen Clayden – St. Johns, New Brunswick, Canada; Pradeep Divakar – Madrid, Spain; Kendra Driscoll – St. Johns, New Brunswick, Canada – John Elix – Canberra, Australia; Theodore Esslinger – Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.A.; Richard Harris – Bronx, New York, U.S.A.; David Hawksworth – Madrid, Spain & London, U.K.; James Hinds – Orono, Maine, U.S.A.; Brendan Hodkinson – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; Per Magnus Jørgensen – Bergen, Sweden; Kerry Knudsen – Riverside, California, U.S.A.; Martin Kukwa – Gdansk, Poland; Douglas Ladd – St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.; Thorsten Lumbsch – Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.; Bruce McCune – Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A.; Heath O’Brien – Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Yoshihito Ohmura – Tokyo, Japan; Zdenek Palice – Průhonice, Czech Republic; David Richardson – Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Dirk Rodriguez – Ventura, California, U.S.A.; Martin Westberg – Stockholm, Sweden; Mikhail Zhurbenko – St. Petersburg, Russia. iv Table of Contents Front Matter i-vi. effectively published online 3 January 2012: Lendemer, J.C., M.N. Benatti, T.L. Esslinger, J. Hafellner, B.P. Hodkinson, K. Knudsen, J. Kocourková and T. Spribille. Notice of the formation of the International Committee for the Nomenclature of Lichens and Allied Fungi (ICNLAF). 1-3. Hodkinson, B.P. An evolving phylogenetically based taxonomy of lichens and allied fungi. 4-10. McCune, B. The identity of Hypogymnia delavayi (Parmeliaceae) and its impact on H. alpina and H. yunnanensis. 11-18. Arcadia, L. and K. Knudsen. The name Myriospora is available for the Acarospora smaragdula group. 19-25. Benatti, M.N. Canoparmelia cinerascens belongs in the genus Parmelinella (Parmeliaceae, lichenized Ascomycota). 26-30. Knudsen, K. Some Notes on Acarosporaceae in South America. 31-35. effectively published online 1 March 2012: Flakus, A. and M. Kukwa. New records of lichenicolous fungi from Bolivia. 36-48. effectively published online 8 March 2012: Hansen, C.J. and L.R. Goertzen. Psora icterica (Lecanorales, Psoraceae), a new and intersecting disjunction from Alabama. 49-51. effectively published online 9 April 2012: McMullin, R.T. New and Interesting Lichens from Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site, Nova Scotia, Canada 52-59. effectively published online 19 April 2012: Ladd, D. and C. Morse. Endemism lost: Lecanora pallidochlorina (Lecanorales, Lichenized Ascomycotina) in the Great Plains, U.S.A. 60-63. effectively published online 19 June 2012: Kocourková, J., K. Knudsen and S. Tucker. A Checklist of the Lichenicolous Biota of California. 64-103. Perlmutter, G.B., J.C. Lendemer, J.C. Guccion, R.C. Harris, B.P. Hodkinson, W.P. Kubilius, E. Lay and H.P. Schaefer. A Provisional Survey of Lichen Diversity in south-central South Carolina, U.S.A., from the 19th Tuckerman Lichen Workshop. 104-119. v effectively published online 10 July 2012: Brodo, I.M. and J.C. Lendemer. On the perplexing variability of reproductive modes in the genus Ochrolechia: Notes on O. africana and O. arborea in eastern North America. 120-134. effectively published online 11 July 2012: Anderson, F. Reports of Leptogium hibernicum from the southern Appalachian Mountains, a major range extension for the species in North America. 135-138. effectively published online 21 September 2012: Lendemer, J.C. and F. Anderson. Molecular data confirm the identity of populations of the water fan lichen from eastern Canada as Peltigera hydrothyria s. str. 139-140. Buck, W.R. and J.C. Lendemer. Puttea (Pilocarpaceae) in eastern North America. 141-144. effectively published online 23 October 2012: Knudsen, K. and J. Kocourková. The Annotated Checklist of Lichens, Lichenicolous and Allied Fungi of Channel Islands National Park. 145-302. effectively published online 8 November 2012: Knudsen, K. and J. Kocourková. Erratum: Placidium boccanum does not occur in North America. 303. effectively published online 26 November 2012: Benatti, M.N. A worldwide key for the genus Parmelinopsis Elix & Hale (Parmeliaceae; Lichenized Ascomycetes). 304-312. Lendemer, J.C. and R.C. Harris. Studies in lichens and lichenicolous fungi – no. 16. 313-321. effectively published online 31 December 2012: Esslinger, T.L. A new species of Melanohalea from the Andes Mountains in Central Peru. 322-324. vi .
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