Unexpected discovery of a novel basidiolichen in the threatened Caatinga biome of northeastern Brazil

Bryologist

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 601-609

  Sulzbacher, Marcelo A ^a   Baseia, Iuri G ^b   Lücking, Robert ^c   Parnmen, Sittiporn ^c   Moncada, Bibiana ^d  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE MICOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^b Universidade Federa Do Rio Grande Do Norte   (Brazil)

^c FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DISTRITAL FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE CALDAS   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Lichenized Basidiomycota; Neotropics; thallus morphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874837014     PISSN: 00072745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-115.4.601     Document Type: Article

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