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Australasian Lichenology Number 49, July 2001 Australasian Lichenology Number 49, July 2001 ISSN 1328-4401 2 mm ---.. 1 mm 0.5 mm Pyrenula deliquescens (c. Knight) Mull. Arg. First described in the middle 1800s, Pyrenulo deliquescens is widespread in New Zealand.on the bark .of trees and shrubs, especially sm.o.oth barked intr.oduced trees such as ash (Fraxinus) and .oak (Quercus). The species is th.ought t.o be endemic, but that w.on't be kn.own with any certainty until the entire genus has been m.ona graphed (see also b.ottom .of page 3). ANNOUNCEMENT 15th meeting .ofAustralasian lichenDlDgists-2002 2 NEW PUBLICATIONS Key tD the Genera .of Australian lichens-apDthecial crusts 2 FIDra .of Australia VDlume 58A (Lichens 3) . 3 RECENT LITERATURE ON AUSTRALASIAN LICHENS 4 ARTICLES McCarthy, PM-The genus Lithothelium (Pyrenulaceae) in Christmas Island, Indian Ocean ...................................................................................................... 7 Elix, JA; Wardlaw, JH-AnhydrDfusarubin lactDl frDm lichen SDurces ........... 10 Elix, JA; Kantvilas, G-TwD new species .of Parmeliaceae Oichenized AscDmy cDtina) frDm Tasmania .. ..................... .... .......................................................... 12 Galloway, DJ-Thelotrema macrocarpum C.W. Dodge belDngs in Chroodiscus .. 16 ADDITIONAL LICHEN RECORD FROM AUSTRALIA McCarthy, PM; Lucking, R (47)-Pocsia septemseptata Vezda ]8 ADDITIONAL LICHEN RECORD FROM THE PHILIPPINES Bawingan, P; Lumbsch, HT (l}-Pertusaria remota A.W. Archer 20 ADDITIONAL LICHEN RECORDS FROM NEW ZEALAND GallDway, DJ (34}-Caloplaca tornoensis H. Magn., Umbilicaria grisea HDffm., and Umbilicaria krascheninnikovii (Savicz) Zahlbr., three bipDlar lichens .. .. 21 GallDway, DJ; JDhnsDn, PN; Lumbsch, HT (35}-Seven cDrticDIDUS species .ofLee anora, with nDtes .on L. caesiorubella Ach. and L. carpinea (L.) Vain..... ..... 28 GallDway, DJ (36}-Placopsis lambii Hertel & V. Wirth .................................. 36 ANNOUNCEMENT TBIBD LICHEN VOLUME OF THE FLORAOFAUSTRALIA 15TH MEETING OFAUSTRALASIAN LlCHENOLOGIST~2002 FLORA OF AUSTRALIA VOLUME 58A (LICHENS 3) AUSTRALIAN BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES STUDY AND CSIRO PUBLISHING The 15th meeting ofthe Australasian Lichenologists will be held over the week Includes descriptions, keys, illustrations, synonymy, literatyre and specimen end of 20-21 April, 2002, in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. It promises to be citations and distribution maps ofsome of the more robust and luxuriant species an exciting meeting with lots of interesting lichen habitat nearby. More details of of cool-temperate, south-eastern Australia (Lobariaceae and Sphaerophoraceae), the venue and program will appear in the January, 2002, volume of Australasian as well as ecologically important soil-inhabiting groups in semi-arid and arid re Lichenologist (Volume 50). For further information, please contact gions (Peltulaceae, Endocarpon and Placidium). Also in this volume are the first David Eldridge Flora ofAustralia treatments ofcrustose lichens, including the mainly saxicolous School of Geography, University ofNSW Verrucariaceae, and the Trichotheliaceae, a family that is most diverse on the bark Sydney, 2052, Australia and leaves of trees and shrubs in tropical rainforest. phone: (02)-9385-4400 Complete or partial accounts ofseven orders are provided, i.ncluding nine fami e-mail: [email protected] lies, 24 genera and 256 species and infra-specific taxa. Arthrorhaphidaceae (Obermayer; 3 taxa) NEW PUBLICATIONS Baeomycetaceae (Johnston; 1) Icmadophilaceae (Johnston; 5) Lobariaceae (Galloway, Elix, Kantvilas; 72) Myeloconaceae (McCarthy; 1) ILLUSTRATED KEY TO AUSTRALIANAPOTHECIAL CRUSTS Peltulaceae (Biidel; 15) Sphaerophoraceae (Wedin; 15) KEY TO THE GENERA OF AUSTRALIAN LICHENS Trichotheliaceae (McCarthy: 82) - APOTHECIAL CRUSTS Verrucariaceae (McCarthy, Breuss; 62) Price A$85 (hardback) or $70 (paperback) plus shipping. The environments inAustralia are diverse, ranging from tropical to subalpine and Available by August 2001 from: rainforest to arid. The lichens ofAustralia reflect that diversity, with nearly 400 CSIRO PUBLISHING genera and 3000 species known already, and dozens more discovered every year. PO Box 1139 (150 Oxford Street) Ten volumes of the Flora ofAustralia will be devoted to them. Three of those vol Collingwood, Victoria 3066, Australia umes have been published, but the remainder are a few years away. In the mean Telephone: (03)-9662-7666; International: +613-9662-7666 time, this key will ease the problem of identifying apothecial crustose lichens known Fax: (03)-9662-7555; International: +613-9662-7555 from Australia and several ofits oceanic islands, plus many from further afield in More information at httpj/www.publish.csiro.auJ Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. Illustrated with over 170 close-up colour photographs, the key includes details of morphology, anatomy and chemistry, as well as an index to names accepted in the key plus an extensive bibliography. COVER ILLUSTRATION FLORA OF AUSTRALIA SUPPLEMENTARYSERIES NUMBER 11 AUSTRALIAN BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES STUDY, CANBERRA Pyrenula is a genus of some 200 species, most of them tropical. About 50 species have been recorded from Australia and 10 from New Zealand. Those tallies are SEE THE COLOUR FLYER BUNDLED WITH TillS ISSUE probably well short ofthe real figure, however, because Pyrenula species often are A$31.00 each (includes Goods and Services Tax, handling and postage worldwide). overlooked as a result of their being small and scattered, and only a few collectors Cheques must be made payable to Colledor of Public Monies and be in Australian routinely search for them anyway. The genus was established in 1852 by the prolific dollars and drawn on an Australian bank. Send orders to but short-lived Italian lichenologistA. Massalongo (1824-1860). It's characterized by a crustose, corticolous, and usually endophloeodal thallus; a Trentepohlia photo Dr P. McCarthy biont; immersed to erumpent, globose to applanate perithecia; a dark brown to ABRS black, often spreading involucrellum; a hamathecium ofbranched and anastomos GPO Box 787 Canberra A.C.T. 2601, Australia ing paraphysoids which are later replaced by mostly unbranched paraphyses; fax: +61-2-6250-9448 cylindrical, iodine-negative, fissitunicate, 8-spored asci; and usually 3-distoseptate, smooth, brownish, uniseriate spores lacking a perispore (see also back cover). o AUSTRALASIAN LICHENOLOGY 49, July 2001 AUSTRALASIAN LICHENOLOGY 49, July 2001 CD Galloway, OJ; Johnson, PN; Lumbsch, HT (2001): Seven corticolous species of Lec RECENT LITERATURE ON AUSTRALASIAN LICHENS anora, with notes on L. caesiorubella Ach. and L. carpinea (L.) Vain. Australas ian Lichenology 49,28-35. Ahti, T; Wirth, V; Stenroos, S (2001): Cladonia eluii, a new lichen species from Galloway, DJ (2001): Additional lichen records from New Zealand 36. Placopsis New Zealand. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 78, 9-11. lambii Hertel & V Wirth. Australasian Lichenology 49, 36-38. Archer,AW (2000): The lichen generaPharographis and Phaeographina (Graphid Gamock-Jones, P; Malcolm, WM (2001): TransferofCyphellapteridophila to Badim aceae) in Australia. 1: Species based on Australian type specimens. Telopea 8, iella (Ascomycotina, Ectolechiaceae). Bibliotheca Lichenologica 78, 65-67. 461-475. Giralt, M; Navarro-Rosines, P; Egea, JM (2001): Rinodina striatitunicata (Physci Archer, AW (2001): Phaeographina eluii, a new species of Graphidaceae from aceae), new to Europe. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 78,69-74. Australia. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 78,13-16. Green, TGA; Schroeter, B; Kappen, L; Seppelt, RD; Maseyk, K (1998): An assess Bawingan, P; Lumbsch, HT (2001): Additional lichen records from the Philippines ment ofthe relationship between chlorophyll a fluorescence and C02 gas exchange 1. Pertusaria remota A.W. Archer. Australasian Lichenology 49, 20. from field measurements on a moss and lichen. Planta 206, 611-618. Bjerke, JW (2001): Anew sorediate species ofMenegazzia (Parmeliaceae, lichenized Greenfield, LG (2000): Some properties of water soluble substances from antarctic Ascomycota) from Chile. Lichenologist 33,117-120. and arctic mosses and lichens. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 75, 71-78. Broady, PA; Weinstein, RN (1998): Algae, lichens and fungi in La Gorce Mountains, Hammer, S (2001): Podetial morphogenesis in Thysanothecium scutellatum (Asco Antarctica. Antarctic Science 10, 376-385. mycotina, Cladoniacaeae). Bibliotheca Lichenologica 78, 75-83. Coppins, BJ; Kantvilas, G (2001): Four new species ofRimularia Nyl. (Agyriaceae). Hodgins, IW; Rogers, RW (1997): Correlations of stocking with the cryptogamic Bibliotheca Lichenologica 78, 35-48. soil crust ofa semi -arid rangeland in southwest Queensland. Australian Journal Diederich, P; Etayo, J (2000): A synopsis of the genera Skyttea, Uimoniella and of Ecology 22, 425-431. Rhymbocarpu8 (lichenicolousAscomycota, Leotiales). Lichenologist 32, 423-485. Hoffmann, N; Hafellner, J (2000): Eine Revision derlichenicolenArten der Sammel DOring, H; Henssen, A; Wedin, M (1999): Ascoma development in Neophyllis mela gattungen Guignardia und Physalospora. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 77,1-190. carpa (Lecanorales, Ascomycota), with notes on the systematic position of the James, PW; Aptroot, A; Diederich, P; Sipman, HJM; Serusiaux, E (2001): New genus. Australian Journal ofBotany 47, 783-794. species of the lichen genus Menegazzia in New Guinea. Bibliotheca Lichenologica Dyer, PS; Murtagh, GJ (2001): Variation in the ribosomal ITS sequence of