Nomenclatural and taxonomic update to the Catálogo de Líquenes de Colombia

Abstract

We present a nomenclatural and taxonomic update of the Catálogo de Líquenes de Colombia. As a result, the number of reported names is reduced from 1821 to 1793, the total of accepted taxa from 1732 to 1675, and the number of species from 1672 to 1634. The number of doubtful or excluded reports, which includes names with unresolved nomenclatural or taxonomic status, increases from 80 to 109. The number of genera reported for Colombia increases from 272 to 306; 29 previously reported genera are excluded, and 63 genera not reported previously are included. The update reduces the total of families from 73 to 69; it results in the elimination of 13 families and the addition of 9 previously unreported families. We include three new records for Colombia: Caloplaca granularis (Müll.Arg.) Zahlbr., Haematomma persoonii (Fée) A. Massal., and Ochrolechia subpallescens Verseghy. Furthermore, we confirm the presence of the following species: Physcia crispula Müll. Arg., Pseudocyphellaria citrina (Gyeln.) Lücking, Moncada & S. Stenroos, Pseudocyphellaria sandwicensis (Zahlbr.) Moncada & Lücking, Pseudocyphellaria xanthosticta (Pers.) Moncada & Lücking, Sticta sylvatica (Huds.) Ach., Usnea crenulata Truong & P. Clerc, and Usnea mexicana Vain. We also introduce 16 nomenclatural novelties: Ancistrosporella gracilior (Nyl.) Lücking comb. nov. (bas.: Opegrapha gracilior Nyl.); Bacidia neofusconigrescens Lücking nom. nov. (replaced syn.: Lecidea millegrana var. fusconigrescens Nyl.) [non Bacidia fusconigrescens (Kremp.) Zahlbr.]; Diploschistes bartlettii (Lumbsch) Lücking comb. et stat. nov. (bas.: Diploschistes muscorum subsp. bartlettii Lumbsch); Gymnographopsis koreaiensis (Sipman) Lücking & Sipman comb. nov. (bas.: Graphis koreaiensis Sipman); Imshaugia angustior (Nyl.) Sipman (bas.: Parmelia angustior Nyl.); Kalbographa cabbalistica (Nyl.) Lücking comb. nov. (bas.: Graphis cabbalistica Nyl.; new syn.: Graphina caracasana Müll.Arg.); Leptogium pseudolivaceum Lücking nom. nov. (replaced syn.: Collema olivaceum Hook.) [nom. illeg., non Leptogium olivaceum F. Wilson]; Malmidea demutans (Nyl.) Lücking comb. nov. (bas.: Lecidea demutans Nyl.); Ocellularia leucocarpoides (Nyl.) Lücking comb. nov. (bas.: Thelotrema leucocarpoides Nyl.; new syn.: Ocellularia fuscospora Lücking & Pérez-Ort.); Phaeographis decolorascens (Nyl.) Lücking comb. nov. (bas.: Graphis decolorascens Nyl.); Phlyctis endecamera (Nyl.) Lücking & Sipman comb. nov. (bas.: Platygrapha endecamera Nyl.); Sprucidea fuscula (Nyl.) Lücking comb. nov. (bas.: Lecidea fuscula Nyl.); Sticta rudiuscula (Vain.) Moncada & Lücking comb. et stat. nov. (bas.: Sticta damicornis f. rudiuscula Vain.); Sticta subdenudata Moncada & Lücking nom. nov. (replaced syn.: Sticta laciniata var. denudata Nyl.) [non Sticta denudata Taylor]; Thalloloma scribillans (Nyl.) Lücking comb. nov. (bas.: Graphis scribillans Nyl.; new syn.: Graphis anguiniformis Vain.); and Yoshimuriella denudata (Taylor) Moncada & Lücking comb. nov. (bas.: Sticta denudata Taylor).