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The 7 th International Association for Lichenology <strong>Symposium</strong> 2012<br />

(2A-2-P7) Submission ID: <strong>IAL</strong>0131-00002<br />

TAXONOMIC REVISION OF THE USNIC ACID CONTAINING XANTHOPARMELIA SPECIES IN<br />

HUNGARY MORPHOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL AND MOLECULAR INVESTIGATIONS<br />

Farkas E. 1 , Lokos L. 2 , Molnar K. 1<br />

1 Laboratory for Botany and Phytochemistry, Institute of Ecology and Botany of<br />

the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Vacratot, Hungary<br />

2 Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary<br />

Xanthoparmelia is one of the major genera of foliose lichens, and its research has long tradition in Hungary<br />

starting in 1925 with Vilmos Kőfaragó-Gyelnik’s taxonomic work on Parmelia. Following Klára Verseghy’s<br />

Hungarian lichen flora (1994) and Mason E. Hale’s world-monograph on Xanthoparmelia (1990), a modern<br />

taxonomic revision was carried out. This study consists of detailed morphological, chemical, and molecular<br />

analyses of all (appr. 500) herbarium specimens (including Gyelnik’s type materials) belonging to Parmelia s.l.<br />

species producing usnic acid, thus having yellowish-green upper surface (i.e., P. conspersa, P. hypoclysta, P.<br />

protomatrae, P. pulvinaris, P. subdiffluens, P. taractica, and P. tinctina), in the main Hungarian lichen herbaria<br />

(BP, EGR, JPU, SAMU, VBI). During this revision the occurrence of seven Xanthoparmelia species was confirmed<br />

by morphological and chemical analyses so far, namely: X. angustiphylla, X. conspersa, X. protomatrae,<br />

X. pulvinaris, X. stenophylla, X. subdiffluens, and X. tinctina. Four of them (X. angustiphylla, X. protomatrae, X.<br />

pulvinaris, and X. subdiffluens) were described from Hungary by Gyelnik in the 1900s, and the main populations<br />

of X. pulvinaris and X. subdiffluens are found in Hungary. The most important morphological characteristics, e.g.,<br />

the types of lobes, isidia, rhizinae, pycnidia, and the color of the lower surface were considered during the revision.<br />

Since the secondary lichen compounds are taxonomically important in this group, HPTLC and LC MS were<br />

applied to determine these substances. The molecular phylogeny of these species is not explored yet, therefore<br />

the analysis of the sequences of three molecular markers (nuclear ITS and LSU rDNA, as well as mitochondrial<br />

SSU rDNA) are being processed. Maps of the Hungarian distribution for all species were prepared. Xanthoparmelia<br />

conspersa and X. stenophylla seem to be the most widely distributed and the most frequent species. X.<br />

protomatrae is located mostly in the Northern Hungarian Mountain Range, and seems to be missing from most<br />

of the Transdanubian habitats. X. subdiffluens occurs only in a very limited area in sandy habitats of the Danube-<br />

Tisza Interfluve. The current research has been supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA<br />

K81232).<br />

107<br />

2A-2-P

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