Lichen biota of the Altai-Sayan ecoregion

Three new lichenicolous fungi records for Turkey and Asia

“…Abrothallus peyritschii grows on the thallus and soredia of Vulpicida species and infection is ±evident on these specimens. Distribution: Abrothallus peyritschii is previously known throughout Europe (Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland); Asia (Russia: Altai-Sayan, China, India, Kyrgyzstan), Greenland, New Zealand and North America (Golubkov 2011, Obermayer 2004, Roux 2012, Sedelnikova 2013, Suija 2006, Wirth et al 2011). This species is new to Turkey.…”

New species and records of saxicolous lichens from the Kodar Range (Trans-Baikal Territory, Russia)

“…Six species are reported as new for the Stanovoye Nagor'e highlands. Aspicilia dendroplaca is known from Sweden, Finland, northern Russia (Novaya Zemlya) (Magnusson 1939) and southern Siberia (Sedelnikova 2013). It can be recognised by its thin, radially cracked, brownish thallus surrounded by a black prothallus, small crateriform apothecia and the presence of substictic acid (Nordin et al 2011b).…”

“…Aspicilia supertegens is a widely distributed arctic-alpine species known from many localities in Europe and North America (Thomson 1997;Hansen 2003;Clerc 2004;Wirth et al 2013;Hafellner & Türk 2016), Russia (Paukov & Trapeznikova 2005;Kristinsson et al 2010;Sedelnikova 2013) and Mongolia (Schubert & Klement 1971). Aspicilia supertegens is very variable in thallus character and color but can be recognized by the non-lobate thallus, wide crateriform apothecia, variable conidia (17-40 μm) and the absence of secondary metabolites.…”

“…Within Russia, Rimularia badioatra was previously reported from the European part (Leningrad region, Hogland Island) as Lecidea umbonatula (Brenner 1886) and from southern Siberia (Urbanavichus 2010 Aspicilia transbaicalica and Fuscopannaria ahlneri are new for the Kodar Range. The first species is widely distributed in southern Siberia (Sedelnikova 2013;Davydov 2014), Middle Asia (Oxner 1933) and the Urals (Merkulova 2005;Paukov & Trapeznikova 2005). It was described from the Trans-Baikal Territory (Nerchinsk district) (Oxner 1933).…”

New records of lichen species from Magadan region

“…В России приводится для севера Европейской России (Urbanavichus et al, 2008), а также для восточ-ной (Makarova, 2003) и южной частей Сибири (Sedelnikova, 2013 Для территории России вид указан из Чукотки (Makarova, 2003), Командор-ских островов (Urbanavichus, 2004) и Камчатки (Mikulin, 1990). Общее распространение: Арктика, Евро-па, Сев.…”