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SUBMITTER: Temu SG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6920850 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Temu Stella Gilbert SG Tibell Sanja S Tibuhwa Donatha Damian DD Tibell Leif L
Microorganisms 20191026 11
A total of 26 crustose calicioid lichens and fungi were found in Tanzania. Most of them belong to a group of species with wide distributions in cool areas of both hemispheres and occasional occurrence in high mountains at low latitudes. In Tanzania calicioids mainly occur in the middle and upper forest zones and their niches are found on the bark of old trees and on lignum, most of them restricted to mountain cloud forests. Calicioids are rare and often red-listed, and are also bioindicators of ...[more]