Ternstroemia es un género con ca. 141 especies de los trópicos húmedos del mundo, con una especie que alcanza Corea y Japón. Una conjunción de ecosistemas higrófilos y sistemas de montaña con alta diversidad e historias geológicas complementarias, convierte a Venezuela en el país con el mayor número de especies a nivel global, incluyendo una alta d...
We report the first record of Acarospora insolata, A. irregularis, Caloplaca interna, Endocarpon adsurgens, and Flavoplaca limonia in the Iberian Peninsula. The species inhabit volcanic rocks in the Spanish Central Volcanic Region. This finding represents a significant expansion of the distribution range of these five species.
This study compiles information regarding the use of certain plants found in Kırşehir and its surrounding regions in the Central Anatolia Region in folk medicine and other ethnobotanical characteristics. A total of 180 people participated in this study. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with the participants. As a result of the study, demograp...
After his first trip to Colombia in 1932, José Cuatrecasas described 19 novelties in the Ericaceae based on his collections, including seven new species, one new variety, one new form, and ten new combinations. Following the examination of all relevant Cuatrecasas specimens, field books, and images, the nomenclatural and taxonomic status of the nov...
Drepananthus khaosoi sp. nov., a new species from southern Thailand is described and illustrated. It is morphologically most similar to D. ridleyi, especially in the very narrow and elongated petals, but differs in leaf blade size, leaf base, monocarp shape and appearance, monocarp width, length of monocarp stipe, pericarp thickness and seed arrang...
In order to quantify the risks of total and local habitats loss of the Andean lichens due to the global warming projected for the end of the century and the associated upward migration, we carried out lichenological collections in the undergrowth forest at the National Park Sierra Nevada de Merida, Venezuela. We focus on an elevation gradient from ...
Cyclotella alvarniensis is considered a fossil species of diatom from the Upper Miocene. The occurrence of this species is usually associated with the proximity of diatomite exploitation areas. Frustules have been found in some regions of Spain (Murcia-Albacete), France, Switzerland, and recently in Senegal. However, the causes of their aerial disp...
A rare smut fungus, Anthracoidea pseudofoetidae, is reported for the first time from Russia, based on a specimen from the Altai Republic. Carex enervis is a new host record for A. pseudofoetidae. Two new records for Greece, Microbotryum duriaeanum and M. moenchiae-manticae, and a new record for Morocco, Microbotryum moehringiae, are also presented....
