TAILIEUCHUNG - Contributions to lichen diversity of Turkey from the Sarısu area (Kocaeli)

A total of 85 lichen taxa from the Sarısu area of the district of Kandıra in Kocaeli Province were listed. Three new records for the biota of Turkey, Coenogonium pineti (Ach.) Lücking & Lumbsch, Lecania cuprea (.) Van den Boom & Coppins, and Opegrapha calcarea Turner ex Sm., have been identified within the context of this study along with 81 new taxa for the province of Kocaeli. | Turkish Journal of Botany Turk J Bot (2013) 37: 964-969 © TÜBİTAK doi: Research Article Contributions to lichen diversity of Turkey from the Sarısu area (Kocaeli) 1, 1 2 Gülşah ÇOBANOĞLU *, Birkan AÇIKGÖZ , Laurentiu BALONIU Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Science, Marmara University, Göztepe Campus, İstanbul, Turkey 2 Department of Biology, Faculty of Horticulture, Craiova University, Craiova, Romania 1 Received: Accepted: Published Online: Printed: Abstract: A total of 85 lichen taxa from the Sarısu area of the district of Kandıra in Kocaeli Province were listed. Three new records for the biota of Turkey, Coenogonium pineti (Ach.) Lücking & Lumbsch, Lecania cuprea (.) Van den Boom & Coppins, and Opegrapha calcarea Turner ex Sm., have been identified within the context of this study along with 81 new taxa for the province of Kocaeli. Key words: Lichenised fungi, biodiversity, biota, Kocaeli 1. Introduction Lichens have been studied for over 150 years, with an increasing number of publications that have neared 500 in recent years in Turkey. Records pertaining to lichens from the province of Kocaeli are rather limited (Pisut, 1970; John, 2002; Çobanoğlu, 2005), and there have been no previous studies investigating the Sarısu area in particular. As the first detailed lichenological survey of this region, our study identified a total of 85 taxa, the majority of which were new findings for Kandıra District and Kocaeli Province, as well as Turkey. The province of Kocaeli is situated within the eastern boundaries of the Marmara Region in Turkey (Figure). The region is located to the east of İstanbul and is surrounded by the Black Sea towards the north. The only coastal town of the Black Sea in Kocaeli Province is Kandıra, which has a 52-km coast along the sea and an area of 933 km2 that is dotted with small hills (the highest ones .

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• Lichenised fungi
• Lichen diversity
• Coenogonium pineti
• Lecania cuprea
• Turkey’s lichen biota
• Mediterranean phytogeographical
• Lichenicolous fungi
• Lichenised fungi taxa
• Cephalophysis leucospila
• Lichenicolous fungus species
• Strangospora pinicola
• Turkish lichen flora
• Candelariella vitellina
• Cladonia pyxidata L
• Xanthoparmelia type lichenan
• Journal of Botany
• Lichenized fungi
• Antarctic Peninsula
• Thin layer chromatography
• DNA isolation
• Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)