Lichens in four Newfoundland provincial parks: new provincial records

Authors

  • John W. McCarthy Jesuits in English Canada, 43 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C3
  • Kendra E. Driscoll New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick E2K 1E5
  • Stephen R. Clayden New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick E2K 1E5

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v129i3.1720

Keywords:

Lichens, Newfoundland, provincial parks, new record, J. T. Cheeseman, Sandbanks, Jipujijkuei Kuespem, Fitzgerald’s Pond

Abstract

Fieldwork in J. T. Cheeseman, Sandbanks, Jipujijkuei Kuespem, and Fitzgerald’s Pond Provincial Parks, Newfoundland, has yielded 133 lichen taxa, of which 15 species are new to the province: Anisomeridium biforme, Athallia holocarpa, Caloplaca borealis, Cetrelia olivetorum, Cladonia cf. rappii, Gyalolechia xanthostigmoidea, Lecanora straminea, Lecidea brunneofusca, Micarea globulosella, Micarea prasina (s.l.), Miriquidica pycnocarpa, Pertusaria consocians, Toensbergia leucococca, Usnea fragilescens var. mollis, and Usnea silesiaca.

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2015-10-21

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