taxonID	type	description	language	source
6271464DFFD3FFA8FF70AB7AFD164CCF.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: ― Lecania with pale olivaceous areolate thallus with sessile discrete soralia with granular whitish soredia and small apothecia with ascospores 8.5 – 9.8 × 2.4 – 3.1 μm.	en	Aptroot, André, Abl, Kenan Yazici (2017): Lecania sessilisoraliata, a new sorediate lichen species from limestone in Turkey. Phytotaxa 328 (3): 298-300, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.328.3.9, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.328.3.9
6271464DFFD3FFA8FF70AB7AFD164CCF.taxon	description	Description: ― Thallus crustose, covering an area up to 2.5 – 3 cm diam, cracked-areolate, pale olivaceous brown to pale olivaceous green, closely appressed the substratum, 1 – 2 mm thick in center, thinner towards the margin; areoles mostly crowded, 0.2 – 0.6 mm in diam. Medulla white. Soralia sessile and raised above the thallus, initially punctiform, remaining clearly discrete, whitish and clearly contrasting in colour with the thallus, to 0.8 – 1 mm in diam., mostly crowded in the center of the the thallus, concave or convex-globose. Soredia granular, c. 30 – 50 μm diam. Algae chlorococcoid. 6 – 12 μm diam. Apothecia very rare, to 0.3 – 0.4 mm diam, sessile, thallin margin beige, pale brown; disc dark red-brown, young apothecium pale brown to beige colour, to 0.15 – 0.20 mm diam. Hymenium almost hyaline, 46 – 55 μm high; hypothecium pale brown, to 54 – 61 μm high; epithecium brown; proper margin (exciple) yellow-brown. Ascus 8 - spored, Bacidia-type, 8.5 – 12 × 25.5 – 30 μm. Ascospores 8.5 – 9.8 × 2.4 – 3.1 μm, 1 - septate, hyaline, ellipsoid to elongate-ellipsoid, straight or somewhat curved, sometimes constricted at the septum, ends rounded or sligtly pointed, wall thin, without perispore. Secondary chemistry: ― Thallus, medulla and soralia K –, C –, KC –, P –; no substances detected. Etymology: ― The epithet refers to sessile soralia. Holotype: ― TURKEY. Burdur, Bucak, Esirlik village, 37 º 16 ′ 50 ″ N 30 º 43 ′ 30 ″ E, 859 m, on calcareous rock, 27 June 2013, leg. et det. K. Yazici 2461 (KTUB; isotype; ABL).	en	Aptroot, André, Abl, Kenan Yazici (2017): Lecania sessilisoraliata, a new sorediate lichen species from limestone in Turkey. Phytotaxa 328 (3): 298-300, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.328.3.9, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.328.3.9
6271464DFFD3FFA8FF70AB7AFD164CCF.taxon	distribution	Distribution and ecology: ― On somewhat exposed limestone, together with e. g. several Verrucaria species. Only known from Turkey.	en	Aptroot, André, Abl, Kenan Yazici (2017): Lecania sessilisoraliata, a new sorediate lichen species from limestone in Turkey. Phytotaxa 328 (3): 298-300, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.328.3.9, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.328.3.9
6271464DFFD3FFA8FF70AB7AFD164CCF.taxon	discussion	Remarks: ― This is a Lecania with very clear discrete soralia with granular soredia. It is somewhat close to Lecania baeomma (Nyl.) P. James & J. R. Laundon (Smith et al. 2009), but that species has indigo-speckled soralia and is coastal. Additional fertile specimen examined: ― TURKEY. Burdur, Kocaaliler, 37 º 18 ′ 33 ″ N 30 º 44 ′ 36 E, 625 m, on calcareous rock, 10 June 2013, leg. et det. K. Yazici 2462 (KTUB).	en	Aptroot, André, Abl, Kenan Yazici (2017): Lecania sessilisoraliata, a new sorediate lichen species from limestone in Turkey. Phytotaxa 328 (3): 298-300, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.328.3.9, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.328.3.9
