Plectocarpon sp.

McMullin, Richard Troy, Simon, Andrew D. F., Brodo, Irwin M., Wickham, Sara B., Bell-Doyon, Philip, Kuzmina, Maria & Starzomski, Brian M., 2024, DNA barcoding aids in generating a preliminary checklist of the lichens and allied fungi of Calvert Island, British Columbia: Results from the 2018 Hakai Terrestrial BioBlitz, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. 120292-120292 : 120292

Plectocarpon sp.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: R.T. McMullin; occurrenceID: A24A2792-5B3F-57D3-91DD-C7CF979CF3FA; Location: locationID: XXI; decimalLatitude: 51.64221; decimalLongitude: -128.15085; Event : habitat: Lichenicolous on Lobaria linita on Tsuga ; Record Level: institutionID: CANL; collectionID: McMullin 19535

Parasite of

Lobaria linita

Notes

Non-lichenised fungus. This specimen’s morphology and host correspond with Plectocarpon ( Ertz et al. 2005), but no ascospores were seen to confirm its identity.