Heterodermia podocarpa (Bél.) D.D. Awasthi

Ramírez-Roncallo, Kevin, Gómez-Ramírez, Hugo & Negritto, María A., 2020, New records of lichenized fungi in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, Check List 16 (6), pp. 1421-1431 : 1426-1427

Heterodermia podocarpa (Bél.) D.D. Awasthi

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Materials examined. COLOMBIA • Magdalena: Santa Marta, locality of Minca, Bella Vista village , Villa del Sol coffee farm; 11°05.9′N, 074°04.71′W; 1640 m a.s.l., 29 Jun. 2017, K. Ramírez Roncallo leg.; KRR 333; CBUMAG:LIC:505; KRR 362; CBUMAG:LIC:534; KRR 379; CBUMAG:LIC:551 .

Identification. Terminal apothecia with lobed margins; soralia, isidia and phyllidia absent ( Díaz-Escandón 2017). Ecology and distribution. Heterodermia podocarpa was recorded in the departments of Antioquia, Boyacá, Caldas, Casanare, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Huila, Nariño, Norte de Santander, Putumayo, Quindío, Risaralda, Santander, Tolima, and Valle del Cauca, in Andean forests, páramos, and subpáramos, on bark, palms and wood in good condition from 1500 to 3000 m a.s.l. (Díaz- Escandón 2017; Bernal et al. 2020). In SNSM, it was recorded on bark in coffee crops in the sub-Andean forest at 1640 m a.s.l.