''Sticta tunjensis'' is a species of
foliose lichen in the family
Peltigeraceae. Found in Colombia, it was
formally described by Bibiana Moncada and
Robert Lücking
Robert Lücking (born 1964) is a German lichenologist. He is a leading expert on foliicolous lichens–lichens that live on leaves.
Life and career
Born in Ulm in 1964, Lücking earned both his master's (1990) and PhD degree (1994) at the Univer ...
in 2012. The
type specimen was collected in (
Tunja,
Boyacá Department
Boyacá () is one of the thirty-two departments of Colombia, and the remnant of Boyacá State, one of the original nine states of the "United States of Colombia".
Boyacá is centrally located within Colombia, almost entirely within the moun ...
) at an altitude between . The lichen is only known to occur in the
Andes of Colombia at altitudes between . It has been found growing on both bark and on soil, and it often grows among
liverworts in genus ''
Plagiochila''. The
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
''tunjensis'' refers to the
type locality. ''Sticta tunjensis'' is somewhat similar to ''
Sticta weigelii'' in
morphological features, but it is
phylogenetically distinct.
References
tunjensis
Lichen species
Lichens described in 2012
Lichens of Colombia
Taxa named by Robert Lücking
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