Stellarangia namibensis (Teloschistaceae) out of the Namib Desert

Joana Marques; Frederico Santarém; José Carlos Brito

doi:10.3989/ajbm.2638

Authors

Joana Marques Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Porto - CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto - BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO - Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3702-9782
Frederico Santarém CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3271-1627
José Carlos Brito CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto - BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO - Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5444-8132

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/ajbm.2638

Keywords:

Africa, Biogeography, Caloplaca, lichens, Sahara

Abstract

During lichenological fieldwork along the coast of the Atlantic Sahara, Morocco, we collected some remarkably long lobed “Caloplaca” specimens, which turned out to be Stellarangia namibensis. This is the first record of this species in the northern hemisphere, and represents a significant extension of the known range of a lichen previously thought to be endemic to the Namib Desert.

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