Caloplaca edwardiana is described as new to science from collections made on calcareous rock outcrops in the southern Appalachian Mountains of eastern North America (Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee). The species appears to be rare and locally endemic, currently only known from five locations. As an endolithic species without anthraquinones, C. edwardiana likely belongs within the Caloplaca subgroup Pyrenodesmia.
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10 July 2020
Caloplaca edwardiana (Teloschistaceae, lichenized Ascomycetes), a new crustose species from the southern Appalachian Mountains of eastern North America
Jordan R. Hoffman,
James C. Lendemer
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The Bryologist
Vol. 123 • No. 2
Summer 2020
Vol. 123 • No. 2
Summer 2020
biodiversity hotspot
biogeography
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