Notes on the holotype of Sticta damaecornis β weigelii Ach. (=Sticta weigelii)

Abstract

Sticta wiegelii (Ach.) Vain., a cyanobacterial lichen characterized by mainly marginal isidia, occurs in montane rainforest in both tropical and cool-temperate forest biomes, being known from East Africa (Stizenberger 1895; Swinscow & Krog 1988; Krog 2000), Réunion and Madagascar (Nylander 1868; Hue 1890, 1901a), India (Joshi & Awasthi 1982); Japan (Yoshimura 1974; Kurokawa 2003; Takahashi et al. 2004), Central America and the West Indies (Nylander 1865; Hue 1890, 1901a; Imshaug 1956, 1957; Harris 1984; McDonald et al. 2003), Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil (Martius 1833; Vainio 1890; Hue 1901a; Malme 1934; McDonald et al. 2003), Argentina, Chile (Galloway 1994a), Java (Nylander 1868; Stizenberger 1895; Hue 1901b; Zahlbruckner & Mattick 1956); New Guinea (Szatala 1956; Streimann 1986), north-eastern Australia (Galloway 1998, 2001; McDonald et al. 2003), and several Pacific island groups including Hawaii, Fiji, the Galapagos, Tahiti, New Caledonia and the Kermadecs (for references see Elix & McCarthy 1998: 269; McDonald et al. 2003).