Evaluated publications containing records of lichens of Mauritius
Preliminary version 1 December 2016

Not evaluated:

  1. Coppins, B. J. & S. Y. Kondratyuk, 1998: Opegrapha trassii sp. nov., a new lichenicolous fungus on Heterodermia [Opegrapha trassii sp. nov., uus lihheniseerunud seene liik sambliku Heterodermia tallustelt]. - Folia Cryptogamica Estonica 32: 9 - 14.
  2. Crombie, J. M., 1876: New lichens from the Island of Rodriguez. - J. Bot. 14: .
  3. Crombie, J. M., 1877: Lichenes Insulae Rodriguesii. An enumeration of the lichens collected by Dr. J.B. Balfour during the Venus-Transit Expedition 1874. - Journ. Linn. Soc. 15: 431 - 445.
  4. Crombie, J. M., 1879: Botany of Rodriguez: Lichens. - Philosoph. Transactions 168: xxx.

  5. Daruty, A., 1873: Lichens de Maurice récoltés par M.A. Daruty et determinés par M.H.A. Weddell, D.M.P. - Trans. R. Soc. Arts Sci. Maurit., n.s. 7: 163 - 166.
  6. David, J. C. & D. L. Hawksworth, 1995: Lichens of Mauritius I: some new species and records. - In: Knoph, J-G/Schrüfer, K/Sipman, HJM (eds.): Studies in Lichenology with Emphasis on Chemotaxonomy, Geography and Phytochemistry. Festschrift Christian Leuckert. Bibliotheca Lichenologica, J. Cramer, Berlin, Stuttgart, pp. 93-111.

  7. Johnston, H. H., 1894: Report on the Flora of Round Island, Mauritius. - Trans. Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 20: 263 - 264.
  8. Jørgensen, P. M., 2004: Further contributions to the Pannariaceae (lichenized Ascomycetes) of the Southern Hemisphere. - In: Döbbeler, P/Rambold, G (eds.): Contributions to Lichenology. Festschrift in Honour of Hannes Hertel. Bibliotheca Lichenologica, J. Cramer in der Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin, Stuttgart, pp. 229-253.
  9. Laurer, F., 1827: Sieber'sche Lichenen (aus Neuholland und der Insel Bourbon). - Linnaea 1827: 38.
  10. Lindau, G., 1908: Lichenes von Madagaskar, Mauritius und den Comoren. Mit Beschreibung neuer Arten von Dr. A. Zahlbruckner. - In: Voeltzkow: Reise in Ostafrika in den Jahren 1903-1905. III. E. Schweizerbarth\Stuttgart, pp. 1-14.
  11. Müller, J., 1892: Lichenes exotici. - Hedwigia 1892: 276 - 288.
  12. Timdal, E., 2002: Krogia coralloides, a new lichen genus and species from Mauritius. - Lichenologist 34, 4: 293 - 296.
  13. Timdal, E. & H. Krog, 2001: Further studies on African species of the lichen genus Phyllopsora (Lecanorales). - Mycotaxon 77: 57 - 89.

  14. Weddell, H. A., 1873: (Lichens of Mauritius, 89 species). - Trans. R. Soc. Arts et Sc. of Mauritius 1873: . Text string in title, keywords, or abstract: Mauritius Number of hits shown/total: 14/14. Number of records in database: 35027. Current date: 2004.07.21. Search criteria (word match - sorted on author): Data set(s): RLL + Mattick + Supplement + Work File Text string in title, keywords, or abstract: Mauritius Period: 2004 - 2016 Behan-Pelletier, V.M. 2015: Review of sexual dimorphism in brachypyline oribatid mites. - Acarologia 55(2): 127-146. [RLL List # 240 / Rec.# 36589] Keywords: GUSTAVIOIDEA/ AMEROIDEA/ OPPIOIDEA/ LIMNOZETOIDEA/ AMERONOTHROIDEA/ LICNEREMAEOIDEA/ ORIPODOIDEA/ ORIBATELLOIDEA/ CERATOZETOIDEA/ GALUMNOIDEA/ MODIFIED SETAE/ SECRETORY POROSE ORGANS Abstract: Expressions of strong sexual dimorphism have been found in 77 species of Brachypylina, representing 36 genera, in the superfamilies Gustavioidea, Ameroidea, Oppioidea, Limnozetoidea, Ameronothroidea, Licneremaeoidea, Oripodoidea, Oribatelloidea, Ceratozetoidea and Galumnoidea. There are many examples of convergences, e.g., modifications of tarsus I setae in Cosmogneta (Autognetidae), Hydrozetes (Hydrozetidae) and Erogalumna (Galumnidae), and of possible behavioural constraints, e.g., the paraxial position of modified setae in sexually dimorphic species in these genera. Similarly, there is strong convergence in position and modification of presumed secretory porose organs in species of Autogneta (Autognetidae), Mochloribatula (Mochlozetidae), Symbioribates (Symbioribatidae), Oribatella (Oribatellidae), Zachvatkinibates, Nuhivabates (Punctoribatidae), Xiphobates (Chamobatidae) and Psammogalumna (Galumnidae). The number of superfamilies with sexually dimorphic species and the range of expression of sexual dimorphism suggest multiple independent origins in Brachypylina, as congeneric species in 20 of these 36 genera do not show such modifications. Despite 1% of brachypyline species being strongly sexually dimorphic, the evidence for courtship behaviour is limited to the Galumnidae and an undescribed species of Mochloribatula (Mochlozetidae). Evolution of strongly sexually dimorphic species in Oribatida seems to be in response to intermittent dryness, or aquatic habitats, or spatially discrete microhabitats. The littoral habitat is represented by 11 species showing strong sexual dimorphism, coastal vegetation by 6, the semiaquatic by 5, dry soil by 4 species and crustose lichens by 3 species. Arguably, these 28 species and some of the 19 species reported from arboreal habitats (including lichens and moss) live in microhabitats that can be intermittently dry, with wet-dry periods of varying lengths and intensity. Seven sexually dimorphic species of Hydrozetes are found in aquatic habitats; males of these all show modifications of one or more paraxial seta on tarsus I which may be used to orient the female. The 5 sexually dimorphic species of Autogneta, and Unguizetes Mauritius (Jacot) are associated with decaying wood, bark and fungal sporophores, suggesting evolution of sexual dimorphism in this spatially discrete habitat. Undoubtedly, there are many other undiscovered cases of sexual dimorphism in Brachypylina, as microhabitats where they predominantly occur are rarely studied. – doi:10.1051/acarologia/20152163 Notes: Discusses several species that occur on crustose lichens. URL: http://www1.montpellier.inra.fr/cbgp/acarologia/article.php?id=2163 [E-mail correction] [Upload PDF/URL] Elvebakk, A./ Hong, S.G./ Park, C.H./ Robertsen, E.H./ Jørgensen, P.M. 2016: Gibbosporina, a new genus for foliose and tripartite, Palaeotropic Pannariaceae species previously assigned to Psoroma . - The Lichenologist 48(1): 13-52. [RLL List # 242 / Rec.# 37232] Keywords: BIOGEOGRAPHY/ LICHENS/ NEW TAXA/ NOSTOC / PHOTOSYMBIODEMES/ PHYLOGENY/ TAXONOMY Abstract: Reports of ‘Psoroma sphinctrinum’ from Palaeotropical areas are shown to represent instead species of the genus Gibbosporina, which is described here as new to science. This genus is superficially similar to tripartite, austral Pannaria species, such as the species now referred to as Pannaria sphinctrina (Mont.) Tuck. ex Hue. A phylogram based on an analysis of the nuclear large subunit rDNA (LSU) locus shows that Gibbosporina is instead a clade in a Pannariaceae branch referred to as the ‘Physma group’, a most unexpected addition to Pannariaceae dealt with by several previous studies. Genera assigned to this group have very contrasting general appearances. However, this diverse group shares distinctly ring-like thalline excipular margins; strongly amyloid internal ascus structures; well-developed perispores which have irregular gibbae and/or nodulose or acuminate apical extensions, but not verrucae; lacks TLC-detectable secondary compounds and have tropical distributions. Gibbosporina is the only tripartite genus in the group, with distinct, nodulose, placodioid, mini-fruticose to mini-foliose cephalodia with a high diversity of Nostoc cyanobionts. The cyanomorphs can apparently exist independently in some cases, although the apothecia on such cephalodia on a specimen from Réunion were unexpectedly found to belong to the chloromorph. The genus and related genera forming the ‘Physma group’ are probably evolutionarily old, and their weak affinity to the remaining part of Pannariaceae, concentrated in the Southern Hemisphere, is discussed. The genus includes 13 known species, and the generitype is Gibbosporina boninensis from the Japanese Ogasawara Islands, originally described as Psoroma boninense and recombined here. The following 12 species are described here as new to science, seven of them with molecular support in an LSU and ITS-based phylogram: Gibbosporina acuminata (Australia, the Philippines), G. amphorella (New Caledonia), G. bifrons (Malaysia, New Caledonia, the Philippines, Solomon Islands), G. didyma (Mauritius, Réunion), G. elixii (Australia), G. leptospora (Australia, Papua New Guinea), G. nitida (Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines), G. mascarena (Mauritius, Réunion, Sri Lanka), G. papillospora (the Philippines), G. phyllidiata (Solomon Islands), G. sphaerospora (Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Samoa, and with Psoroma sphinctrinum var. endoxanthellum as a new synonym), and G. thamnophora (Australia and the Philippines). Except for the phyllidiate G. phyllidiata and for G. thamnophora which has cephalodia adapted for vegetative propagation, the species are all primarily fertile. A key for determining the species is provided. – doi:10.1017/S0024282915000328 Notes: New: Gibbosporina Elvebakk, Hong & P. M. Jørg. (type: G. boninensis), G. acuminata Elvebakk (from Australia and The Philippines), G. amphorella Elvebakk & Hong (from New Caledonia), G. bifrons Elvebakk, Hong & P. M. Jørg. (from Malaysia, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, and The Philippines), G. boninensis (Kurok.) Elvebakk & P. M. Jørg. (= Psoroma boninense Kurok.), G. didyma Elvebakk, Hong & P. M. Jørg. (from Mauritius and Réunion), G. elixii Elvebakk, Hong & P. M. Jørg. (from Australia), G. leptospora Elvebakk (from Australia), G. mascarena Elvebakk, Hong & P. M. Jørg (from Mauritius, Réunion and Sri Lanka), G. nitida Elvebakk, Hong & P. M. Jørg. (from Australia, Papua New Guinea, and The Philippines), G. papillospora Elvebakk (from The Philippines), G. phyllidiata Elvebakk (from Solomon Islands), G. sphaerospora Elvebakk & Hong (from Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines) (= Psoroma sphinctrinum var. endoxanthellum Zahlbr.), G. thamnophora Elvebakk & P. M. Jørg. (from Australia and Papua New Guinea). Lectotypified: Pannaria sphinctrina var. microphylla Hue (=G. boninensis). URL: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=10075892&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0024282915000328 [E-mail correction] [Upload PDF/URL] Frisch, A./ Ohmura, Y./ Ertz, D./ Thor, G. 2015: Inoderma and related genera in Arthoniaceae with elevated white pruinose pycnidia or sporodochia. - The Lichenologist 47(4): 233-256. [RLL List # 240 / Rec.# 36523] Keywords: ARTHONIALES/ CONIDIOMATA/ LICHENS/ PHYLOGENY/ TAXONOMY Abstract: The genus Inoderma (Ach.) Gray is lectotypified with Inoderma byssaceum and resurrected for a small group of species in Arthoniaceae with elevated, white pruinose pycnidia, immersed to adnate white pruinose apothecia and a weakly gelatinized hymenium. Inoderma nipponicum is described from Japan, I. afromontanum from Uganda and the European Lecanactis subabietina is transferred to the genus. Sporodophoron is described for a small group of species in Arthoniaceae related to Inoderma but with a unique type of sporodochia instead of pycnidia. Sterile specimens of this new genus resemble species of Tylophoron but differ in the rounded angular to elliptical to short cylindrical, 0–2-septate sporodochial conidia with unevenly thickened walls which are formed apically in zigzag-shaped and occasionally branched chains. Sporodophoron further differs in thallus chemistry and is genetically distinct. Tylophoron americanum and Schismatomma cretaceum are transferred to Sporodophoron, and the new species S. gossypinum from Japan and S. primorskiense from eastern Russia are described. The genus Glomerulophoron is described for a single species from Mauritius, G. mauritiae, differing from Sporodophoron in the tightly coiled chains of sporodochial conidia and being genetically distinct. A phylogenetic tree showing the position of Inoderma, Sporodophoron and Glomerulophoron in Arthoniaceae is presented. A key to all species of Arthoniaceae with sporodochia or elevated white pruinose pycnidia is presented. Arthothelium spectabile, the type of the large heterogeneous genus Arthothelium, is confirmed for the cryptothecioid subclade in Arthoniaceae. – doi:10.1017/S0024282915000201 Notes: Inoderma (Ach.) Gray is recognized as distinct from Arthonia, and lectotypified with I. byssaceum (Weigel) Gray. New: I. afromontanum Frisch & G. Thor (from Uganda), I. nipponicum Frisch, Y. Ohmura & G. Thor (from Japan), I. subabietinum (Coppins & P. James) Ertz & Frisch (= Lecanactis subabietina Coppins & P. James), Sporodophoron Frisch, Y. Ohmura, Ertz & G. Thor (type: S. gossypinum), S. americanum (Lendemer, E. Tripp & R. C. Harris) Ertz & Frisch (= Tylophoron americanum Lendemer, E. Tripp & R. C. Harris, S. cretaceum (Hue) Ertz & Frisch (= Crocynia cretacea Hue), S. gossypinum Frisch, Y. Ohmura & G. Thor (from Japan), S. primorskiense Frisch & Y. Ohmura (from Russia), Glomerulophoron Frisch, Ertz & G. Thor (type G. mauritiae), G. mauritiae Frisch, Ertz & G. Thor (from Mauritius). URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0024282915000201 [E-mail correction] [Upload PDF/URL] Jorgensen, PM 2004: Further contributions to the Pannariaceae (lichenized Ascomycetes) of the Southern Hemisphere. - In: Döbbeler, P/Rambold, G (eds.): Contributions to Lichenology. Festschrift in Honour of Hannes Hertel. Bibliotheca Lichenologica, J. Cramer in der Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin, Stuttgart, pp. 229-253. [RLL List # 194 / Rec.# 25217] Keywords: AUSTRELLA/ DEGELIA/ DEGELIELLA/ PANNARIA/ PARMELIELLA/ PROTOPANNARIA/ SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE Abstract: 14 fig. [New: Austrella gen. nov., A. arachnoidea sp. nov. (Australia), A. brunnea (P. M. Jorg.) comb. nov., Degelia sect. Frigidae sect. nov., Degelia subcincinnata (Nyl.) comb. nov., D. symtychia (Tuck.) comb. nov., Degeliella gen. nov., D. rosulata (P. M. Jorg. & D. J. Galloway) comb. nov., D. versicolor (Hook. f. & Taylor) comb. nov., Pannaria xanthorioides sp. nov. (Heard Island), Pannaria subgen. Lepidoleptogium (A. L. Sm.) comb. nov., Pannaria multifida sp. nov. (Réunion, Mauritius), P. cinerascens (Nyl.) comb. nov., Pannaria pruinosa P. M. Jorg. & Timdal sp. nov., Parmeliella sect. Austroparmeliella sect. nov., Parmeliella rakiurae P. M. Jorg. & D. J. Galloway sp. nov. (New Zealand), Parmeliella rosettiformis (Henssen) comb. nov., P. magellanica sp. nov. (Chile), Protopannaria hilaris (Zahlbr.) comb. nov., Psoroma cyanosorediatum sp. nov. (New Zealand), P. multifidum sp. nov. (Tasmania).] [E-mail correction] [Upload PDF/URL] Lücking, R./ Cáceres, M.E.S./ Silva, N.G./ Alves, R.J.V. 2015: The genus Cora in the South Atlantic and the Mascarenes: Two novel taxa and inferred biogeographic relationships. - The Bryologist 118(3): 293-303. [RLL List # 241 / Rec.# 36850] Keywords: AGARICALES/ BASIDIOLICHENS/ ESPíRITO SANTO/ GALáPAGOS/ HAWAII/ HYGROPHORACEAE/ ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY Abstract: The new species Cora sanctae-helenae Lücking and Cora trindadensis Lücking, M. Cáceres, N.G. Silva & R.J.V. Alves are described from the South Atlantic islands of Saint Helena (British Overseas Territory) and Ilha da Trindade (Brazil). Both are putative endemics for each of the two islands. Cora sanctae-helenae is with certainty known from three independent historic collections from Saint Helena; it has not been encountered in a recent survey and may have become extinct, considering the massive transformation of native vegetation on the island to farmland and eroded areas. In contrast, C. trindadensis was encountered during more recent surveys on Ilha da Trindade. In addition, a lectotype is selected for C. gyrolophia Fr., the only species of Cora known from the Paleotropics, based on a single gathering (two collections) from the Mascarenes (Mauritius). Cora trindadensis, C. sanctae-helenae and C. gyrolophia represent the three easternmost and only extra-American occurrences of Cora, which is otherwise an exclusively neotropical to southern South American genus (including the Galápagos Islands and the Juán Fernández Islands). While the geographic origin of the type material of C. gyrolophia was in some doubt, the phylogenetic relationships of the vascular plant flora of Saint Helena indicate partial affinities with the Neotropics and South America on the one hand and with Africa and the Mascarenes on the other, placing the occurrence of Cora in the South Atlantic and the Mascarenes in a new perspective as a possible eastward expansion of the genus originating from South America. – doi:10.1639/0007-2745-118.3.293 Genera/Families: Dictyonema/Cora Notes: New: Cora sanctae-helenae Lücking (from Saint Helena), C. trindadensis Lücking, M. Cáceres, N.G. Silva & R.J.V. Alves (from Brazil). Lectotypified: C. gyrolophia Fr. Tehler, A., D. Ertz & M. Irestedt, 2013: The genus Dirina (Roccellaceae, Arthoniales) revisited. - Lichenologist 45(4): 427-476. [RLL List # 241 / Rec.# 36865] Keywords: BIODIVERSITY/ CRYPTIC SPECIES/ LICHENIZED FUNGI/ PHYLOGENY/ TAXONOMY/ VICARIANCE Abstract: Dirina (Roccellaceae, Arthoniales) is a monophyletic genus of crustose, saxicolous or corticolous lichenized fungi. Twenty-four species are accepted in the genus, including nine new species: Dirina angolana, D. arabica, D. astridae, D. canariensis, D. indica, D. madagascariensis, D. pacifica, D. pallescens and D. sorocarpa. A phylogenetic hypothesis is presented based on data from four molecular markers, ß-tubulin, ITS 1 and 2, nuLSU and RPB2, including all recognized Dirina species worldwide. New combinations proposed include Dirina badia for Roccellina badia, Dirina jamesii for Roccellina jamesii, Dirina candida for Chiodecton candidum and Dirina teichiodes for Lecidea teichiodes. Two species are reinstated: Dirina approximata and D. monothalamia (as a new name of Chiodecton africanum). Asexual morphs described earlier at the rank forma are no longer recognized as taxonomic units viz., Dirina catalinariae f. sorediata, D. insulana f. sorediata, D. massiliensis f. sorediata, D. paradoxa ssp. paradoxa f. sorediata and D. massiliensis f. aponina. One species, Dirina calcicola, is transferred to Fulvophyton and two other species, Dirina insulae-howensis and Dirina neozelandica, are transferred to Schismatomma. Dirina follmannii is not accepted in Dirina and placed as incertae sedis. A key to the species of Dirina is provided. Vicariance through plate tectonics and continental drift versus long distance dispersal to explain biogeographical patterns is discussed. Notes: New: Dirina angolana Tehler & Ertz (from Angola), D. arabica Tehler & Ertz (from Yemen), D. astridae Tehler (from Mauritius), D. badia (Tehler) Tehler & Ertz (= Roccellina badia Tehler), D. canariensis Tehler & Ertz (from Spain), D. candida (Müll. Arg.) Tehler & Ertz (= Chiodecton candidum Müll. Arg.), D. indica Upreti & Nayaka (from India and Yemen), D. jamesii (Tehler) Tehler & Ertz (= Roccellina jamesii Tehler), D. madagascariensis Tehler, Ertz, Killmann, Razafindr., Sérus. & Eb. Fisch. (from Madagascar), D. monothalamia Tehler & Ertz nom. nov. pro. Chiodecton africanum Fée non D. africana Kremp., D. pacifica Tehler & Ertz (from U.S.A. [Hawaii], Ecuador), D. pallescens Tehler & Ertz (from Mexico), D. sorocarpa Tehler & Ertz (from Cape Verde), D. teichiodes (Stirt.) Tehler & Ertz (= Lecidea teichiodes Stirt.), Fulvophyton calcicola (Sparrius) Tehler & Ertz (= D. calcicola Sparrius). Schismatomma insulae-howense (Sparrius) Tehler & Ertz (= D. insulae-howense Sparrius), Schismatomma neozelandicum (Redinger) Tehler & Ertz (= D. neozelandica Redinger). D. approximata Zahlbr. treated as distinct species, D. follmannii (C.W. Dodge) Sparrius treated as incertae sedis and excluded from D.. New synonymies: D. catalinariae f. sorediata Tehler = D. catalinariae f. catalinariae Hasse, D. insulana f. sorediata Tehler = D. insulana f. insulana (Tav.) Tehler, D. massiliensis f. aponina (A. Massal.) Tehler and D. massiliensis f. sorediata (Müll. Arg.) Tehler = D. massiliensis f. massiliensis Durieu & Mont., D. paradoxa f. sorediata (Tehler) Tehler = D. paradoxa f. paradoxa (Fée) Tehler. Number of hits shown/total: 6/6. Number of records in database: 48023. Current date: 2016.12.20. -->