The squamulose pyrenocarpous lichen Neocatapyrenium disparatum from Texas is described as new. It is the only species of the genus so far known to occur outside Eurasia. Morphologically it resembles N. cladonioideum from eastern Asia but differs in having a finely scabrid thallus surface and smaller ascospores. A key to the five known species is provided.
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1 December 2005
A New Species of the Lichen Genus Neocatapyrenium (Verrucariaceae) from North America
Othmar Breuss
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The Bryologist
Vol. 108 • No. 4
Winter 2005
Vol. 108 • No. 4
Winter 2005
Lichen taxonomy
lichenized Ascomycetes
Neocatapyrenium
new species
North America
Verrucariaceae