CALOPLACA SCYTHICA, A NEW SPECIES FROM SOUTHERN UKRAINE

Abstract

Caloplaca scythica Khodosovtsev & Sechting is described from Ukrainian Artemisia - Festuca steppes near the Black Sea. It grows on twigs of small shrubs of Halocnemum strobilaceum and Limonium sp. on salty soils, and is characterized by greenish grey areoles or squamules with punctiform to confluent soralia and zeorine apothecia with a conspicuous white pruina.