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ANNALES BOTANICI FENNICI
Volume 53, Issue 3-4, Pages 243-262Publisher
FINNISH ZOOLOGICAL BOTANICAL PUBLISHING BOARD
DOI: 10.5735/085.053.0413
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- program NAKI of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic [DF12P0lOVV025]
- Grant Agency of Faculty of Environmental Sciences in Prague [42900/1312/3114]
- Polish National Science Centre [N303 821 740]
- TUBITAK [111T927]
- Grant Agency of the University of South Bohemia [133/2014/P]
- Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research [14-04-31024, 16-04-01488]
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We describe three new, seemingly-cryptic species in the lichen genus Caloplaca (Teloschistaceae) with black apothecia. Those species, separated in nrITS and beta-tubulin DNA phylogenies, appeared to be phenotypically indistinguishable. We looked for their phenotypic differences using a two-phase method comprised of a preliminary examination in which diagnostic value of all available characters was evaluated using a small number of samples and potentially-diagnostic characters were selected, and a subsequent detailed study in which characters selected in the first phase were tested using more samples. We found 19 diagnostic characters (continuous and discrete) of which four continuous and three discrete characters could be considered fully diagnostic, i.e. allowing for correct identification of at least one species. Hence, the three species are not cryptic, but can be distinguished phenotypically. Here, they are formally described as Caloplaca micromarina Frolov, Khodos. & Vondrak sp. nova, C. micromontana Frolov, Wilk & Vondrak sp. nova and C. microstepposa Frolov, Nadyeina, Khodos. & Vondrak sp. nova.
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