Aptroot André, Stech Michael
ABL Herbarium, Gerrit van der Veenstraat 107, NL-3762 XK Soest, The Netherlands.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
MycoKeys. 2018 Apr 3(33):69-84. doi: 10.3897/mycokeys.33.23911. eCollection 2018.
In the course of a multi-taxon biodiversity inventory for the island of St. Eustatius, lichens were collected from 11 plots representing different vegetation types. From these collections, 126 lichen species are reported, 54 of which are new reports for St. Eustatius. Most species could be identified to species level based on morphological and chemical characters. In a few cases, mtSSU DNA sequences were generated for a preliminary molecular identification and future phylogenetic studies. In total, 263 identified lichen species are currently known from St. Eustatius, as well as some additional genera with yet unidentified species and lichenicolous fungi.