Arthonia dokdoensis and Rufoplaca toktoana - Two New Taxa from Dokdo Islands (South Korea)

Sergij Kondratyuk; László Lőkös; Josef Halda; Beeyoung Gun Lee; Seol-Hwa Jang; Jeong-Jae Woo; Jung Shin Park; Soon-Ok Oh; Sang-Kuk Han; Jae-Seoun Hur

doi:10.1080/12298093.2019.1688074

Arthonia dokdoensis and Rufoplaca toktoana - Two New Taxa from Dokdo Islands (South Korea)

Mycobiology. 2019 Nov 14;47(4):355-367. doi: 10.1080/12298093.2019.1688074. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ M. H. Kholodny Institute of Botany, Kiev, Ukraine.
² Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary.
³ Department of Biology, University of Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
⁴ Baekdudaegan National Arboretum, Bonghwa, Korea.
⁵ Korean Lichen Research Institute, Sunchon National University, Suncheon, Korea.
⁶ Korea National Arboretum, Pocheon, Korea.

Abstract

Arthonia dokdoensis sp. nov., a lichenicolous fungus from the subcosmopolitan Arthonia molendoi complex growing on crustose thalli of species of the genus Orientophila (subfamily Xanthorioideae, Teloschistaceae), as well as the lichen species Rufoplaca toktoana sp. nov. (subfamily Caloplacoideae, Teloschistaceae) similar to Rufoplaca kaernefeltiana, both from Dokdo Islands, Republic of Korea, are described, illustrated, and compared with closely related taxa. In the phylogenetic tree of the Arthoniaceae based on 12S mtSSU and RPB2 gene sequences, the phylogenetic position of the A. dokdoensis and the relationship with the A. molendoi group are illustrated, while the position of the newly described R. toktoana is confirmed by phylogenetic tree based on ITS nrDNA data.

Keywords: New species; Orientophila; phylogenetic analysis; taxonomy.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by a grant from the Korean Forest Service Program through the Korea National Arboretum (KNA1-1-22, 17-2), the Korean National Research Resource Center Program (NRF-2017M3A9B8069471), the Korean Brain Pool Program (161S-4-3-1659), and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (M/172-2017).