Three New, Seemingly-Cryptic Species in the Lichen Genus<i>Caloplaca</i>(Teloschistaceae) Distinguished in Two-Phase Phenotype Evaluation
Journal: Annales Botanici Fennici
Year: 2016

We describe three new, seemingly-cryptic species in the lichen genus Caloplaca (Teloschistaceae) with black apothecia. Those species, separated in nrITS and β-tubulin DNA phylogenies, appeared to be phenotypically indistinguishable. We looked for their phenotypic differences using a two-phase method comprised of a preliminary examination in which diagnostic value of all available characters was evaluated using a small number of samples and potentially-diagnostic characters were selected, and a s