Three lichenicolous species of Cercidospora are reported for the first time from Turkey: Cercidospora crozalsiana on Squamarina lentigera, C. verrucosaria on Megaspora verrucosa, and C. werneri on Aspicilia desertorum. Comments on their morphological and anatomical characters. | M. CANDAN, M. G. HALICI Research Note Turk J Bot 35 (2011) 625-629 © TÜBİTAK doi: New Cercidospora records for Turkey Mehmet CANDAN 1, Mehmet Gökhan HALICI2,* 1 2 University of Anadolu, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, 26470, Eskişehir - TURKEY University of Erciyes, Faculty of Arts & Science, Department of Biology, 38039 Kayseri - TURKEY Received: Accepted: Abstract: Three lichenicolous species of Cercidospora are reported for the first time from Turkey: Cercidospora crozalsiana on Squamarina lentigera, C. verrucosaria on Megaspora verrucosa, and C. werneri on Aspicilia desertorum. Comments on their morphological and anatomical characters, habitats, and substrata and a short diagnosis are provided for each new record for Turkey. Microphotographs are also provided for each taxon. Key words: Ascomycota, lichenicolous fungi, biodiversity Türkiye için yeni Cercidospora kayıtları Özet: Üç likenikol Cercidospora türü Türkiye’ den ilk kez rapor edildi: Squamarina lentigera üzerinde Cercidospora crozalsiana, Megaspora verrucosa üzerinde C. verrucosaria ve Aspicilia desertorum üzerinde C. werneri. Türkiye için yeni kayıt olan her tür için morfolojik ve anatomik karakterler, habitat ve substrat karakterleri ile ilgili yorumlar ve kısa tanımlamaları verilmiştir. Aynı zamanda her takson için mikrofotoğraflar verilmiştir. Anahtar sözcükler: Ascomycota, likenikol mantarlar, biyoçeşitlilik Introduction The genus Cercidospora Körb. includes fungi obligately growing on lichens and more rarely colonies of soil algae (Navarro-Rosinés et al., 2004). The lichenicolous species seem to be commensalistic to weakly pathogenic by suppressing the ascospore production in the host lichens especially when they infect the host ascomata. The species of the genus are abundant in the northern hemisphere but are also known from South America (Navarro-Rosinés et al., 2004). Interest in determining new taxa and new records of lichenicolous
