Eight new lichen species and 88 new records from Sri Lanka

Chemical Composition and Antimicrobial Activity of Two Sri Lankan Lichens, Parmotrema rampoddense, and Parmotrema tinctorum against Methicillin-Sensitive and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

“…e retention time of the compound "X" is given in t. Here, standard n-alkane series containing C 8 -C 20 hydrocarbons (40 mg/L, Sigma-Aldrich)) in hexane was used for calculating the retention indices. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] were used for the second phase of the study along with MSSA as the reference organism. e MRSA strains used in this study were isolated from pus samples obtained for culture and sensitivity testing from patients having skin and soft tissue infections among patients admitted to the Teaching Hospital, Karapitiya, Sri Lanka.…”

“…Also, Sri Lanka harbors a highly diverse lichen flora, approximately 1200 of which have already been identified. It is expected that 2000 or more lichen species could be found on the island nation due to the minimal knowledge of Sri Lankan lichen species [6]. Lichens are widely used in folk medicine in many countries, such as India, Sri Lanka, and the Ayurveda as well as Unani systems of medicine describe their use in the treatment of a multitude of diseases [7].…”

New records and a key to the species ofMalmidea(lichenized Ascomycota) from India

“…It is characterized by a yellow‐orange medulla of thallus as well as verrucae that turns K+ orange to red, apothecia solitary to grouped, medullary layer of excipulum encrusted with greyish to ochraceous‐yellow granules that dissolve in K with orange‐yellowish to lemon yellow reaction, asci (6–) 8‐spored, and ascospores of (14.6–) 15.8–19.6 (–22.5) × (9.1–) 10.0–11.0 (–11.2) μm, (n = 21), l/b = (1.4–) 1.5–1.9 (–2.1) μm. Earlier this species was known from the Philippines (Vainio, ), Sri Lanka (Weerakoon et al ., ) and Thailand (Kalb et al ., ). The species is in the earlier collections of Ajay Singh from the Andaman Islands during 1961 where it annotated as Lecidea granifera .…”

“…() to accommodate the Lecidea piperis ‐ and Lecanora granifera groups into their corresponding phylogenetic position. At present, the family Malmideaceae includes five genera, and the genus Malmidea comprises actually 55 species (Kalb, ; Spribille et al ., ; Kalb et al ., ; Schumm and Aptroot, ; Cáceres et al ., , ; Weerakoon and Aptroot, , ; Singh and Pinokiyo, ; Breuss and Lücking, ; Weerakoon et al ., ; Cáceres et al ., ). Breuss and Lücking () keyed out all known species of Malmidea in the world.…”

New species and new records of lichenized Ascomycota from tropical deciduous forests of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, India

“…and provided a detailed morphotaxonomic account of 12 accepted species. Since then the genus was updated several times with discoveries of many new species (Aptroot, 2009;Wolseley and Aptroot, 2009;Lücking et al, 2011;Alves et al, 2014;Aptroot et al, 2014;Cáceres et al, 2014;Xavier-Leite et al, 2014;Seavey and Seavey, 2015;Weerakoon et al, 2016;Diederich et al, 2017;Seavey et al, 2017). At present the genus is represented by 28 species in the world.…”