''Buellia capensis'' is a species of
crustose lichen in the family
Caliciaceae. Found in South Africa, it was
formally described as new species in 2021 by
John Elix and Helmut Mayrhofer. The
type specimen was collected south of
Langebaan (
Seeberg
Seeberg is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The lake Burgäschisee is located on the border with Aeschi. On 1 January 2016 the former municipality of Hermiswil merged into Seebe ...
,
Cape Province) at an altitude ranging from ; here it was found growing on
granite from a south-exposed slope. It is only known from the type collection. The contains several
secondary compounds
Secondary metabolites, also called specialised metabolites, toxins, secondary products, or natural products, are organic compounds produced by any lifeform, e.g. bacteria, fungi, animals, or plants, which are not directly involved in the norma ...
, including
lichexanthone and
secalonic acid A as major metabolites, and trace amounts of
fumarprotocetraric acid and
succinprotocetraric acid. The
specific epithet
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''capensis'' refers to the region of the
type locality.
See also
*
List of ''Buellia'' species
References
capensis
Lichen species
Lichens described in 2021
Lichens of South Africa
Taxa named by John Alan Elix
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