Willdenowia – Annals of the Botanic Garden
and
Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
ISSN 0511-9618
© 2006 BGBM Berlin-Dahlem.
Abstract
Seventy-eight lichen species are added to the known lichen flora of the
N Mongolian province Khentey and six lichen species are reported for
the first time from the province and phytogeographical region Khangay,
which covers parts of central and NW Mongolia. One lichen species is
new to the Mongolian Altay in W Mongolia. Seven crustose epiphytic
lichens are new to Asia, viz. Caloplaca thuringiaca,
Candelariella viae-lacteae, Hypocenomyce leucococca, Lecidea
leprarioides, Pyrrhospora cinnabarina, Rinodina degeliana,
and Strangospora microhaema. Thirty-one further
species are first records for Mongolia, viz. Arthonia
apathetica, Buellia badia, B. triphragmioides, Caloplaca cerinella, C.
chrysophthalma, Chaenotheca chrysocephala, C. trichialis, Cladonia
humilis, Collema subflaccidum, Graphis scripta, Lecanora
circumborealis, L. intricata, Lecidea nylanderi, Lepraria jackii,
Micarea peliocarpa, Mycobilimbia tetramera, Parmeliopsis hyperopta,
Phaeophyscia rubropulchra, Physcia adscendens, Physciella chloantha, P.
melanchra, Porpidia macrocarpa, Ramalina calicaris, Rhizocarpon
hochstetteri, Schismatomma pericleum, Tuckermannopsis americana, Usnea
articulata, Verrucaria margacea, V. praetermissa, Xanthoria fulva, X.
ulophyllodes.
Key words: lichenes, phytogeography, Central Asia, NE
Asia.