Lecanora caperatica is described based on collections from throughout temperate eastern North America. It is a crustose sorediate species in the L. subfusca group which has pulcaris-type apothecia, and produces atranorin and caperatic acid often with accessory roccellic/angardianic acid. The species is chemically similar to the European L. mugosphagneti which differs in ecology, thallus morphology and in having albella-type apothecia. The generic placement of L. caperatica, and its affinity to the L. subfusca group, are confirmed by molecular phylogenetic analysis.
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This is a zipped folder that contains the following.
1) A concatenated alignment of ITS and mtSSU sequences from sorediate Lecanora species from the Malicek et al (2017) paper with four new sequences added. File can be found in in both NEXUS (.nex) and PHYLIP (.phy) formats.
2) A concatenated alignment of the six-gene data set of lecanoroid lichens from Zhao et al (2015) with four new sequences added. File can be found in in both NEXUS (.nex) and PHYLIP (.phy) formats.
3) PDFs of results of the maximum liklihood analyses of single loci from the Malicek et al.(2017) dataset to confirm absence of conflict between loci.
Full citations:
MalÌcek, J., Berger, F., Palice, Z., & Vondr·k, J. 2017. Corticolous sorediate Lecanora species (Lecanoraceae, Ascomycota) containing atranorin in Europe. The Lichenologist 49: 431-455.
Zhao, X., Leavitt, S. D., Zhao Z. T., Zhang, L. L., Arup U., Grube, M., PÈrez-Ortega S., Printzen C., Sliwa, L., Kraichak, E., Divakar, P. K., A. Crespo & H. T. Lumbsch. 2015. Towards a revised generic classification of lecanoroid lichens (Lecanoraceae, Ascomycota) based on molecular, morphological and chemical evidence. Fungal Diversity 78: 293-304.
