Three new taxa of the lichen genus Lobothallia (Megasporaceae, Ascomycota) from China Author Zhang, Yanyun 0000-0002-0902-5066 College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, 241000, Wuhu, China Author Wang, Lun College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, 241000, Wuhu, China Author Yu, Xinmeng College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, 241000, Wuhu, China Author Cheng, Su College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, 241000, Wuhu, China Author Liu, Junlan College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, 241000, Wuhu, China Author Wang, Xinyu 0000-0003-2166-6111 Yunnan Key Laboratory for Fungal Diversity and Green Development, Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS, 650201, Kunming, China text MycoKeys 2024 2024-09-16 108 351 369 journal article 303308 10.3897/mycokeys.108.126994 5792dbad-376f-4a2d-9ff3-e7052cd0874e PMC11420544 39318423

Table 2. Comparison between Lobothallia var. subdiffracta, “ L. helanensis ” and L. var. rimosa.

Character	L. var. subdiffracta	“ L. helanensis ”	L. var. rimosa
Thallus form	areolate	areolate	areolate, marginal areoles slightly elongate
Apothecia form and size (mm)	aspicilioid, disc 0.2–0.4 (– 1.5 in our newly collected materials) in diam.	aspicilioid, 0.5–1.3 (– 2) in diam.	lecanorine, (0.2 –) 0.7–1.5 (– 2) in diam.
Disc	epruinose	epruinose	pruinose
Habit (substratum)	siliceous rock	calcareous rock	calcareous rock
References	Magnusson (1944); Paukov et al. (2019)	Kou et al. (2013)	This paper