Turnover of Lecanoroid Mycobionts and Their Photobionts Along an Elevation Gradient in Bolivia Highlights the Role of Environment in Structuring the Lichen Symbiosis.

Shifts in climate along elevation gradients structure mycobiont-photobiont associations in lichens. We obtained mycobiont (lecanoroid Lecanoraceae) and photobiont ( alga) DNA sequences from 89 lichen thalli collected in Bolivia from a ca. 4,700 m elevation gradient encompassing diverse natural communities and environmental conditions.

Taxonomic recognition of some species-level lineages circumscribed in nominal s. lat. (Lecanoraceae, Ascomycota).

Background: (Nyl.) R. Sant.

Neotypification of and molecular evidence of its occurrence in Poland and South America.

is a widely distributed placodioid lichen, which develops a distinctly rosette thallus, composed of elongated and strongly inflated to sinuous-plicate lobes. The taxon is characterised by high morphological plasticity and varied composition of secondary metabolites. However, the epithet was never typified.