taxonID	type	description	language	source
0C81B12C338C5FD98DDDBFB015FD3B7B.taxon	description	Fig. 2	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
0C81B12C338C5FD98DDDBFB015FD3B7B.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Differing from S. subscrobiculata in the larger thalli with abundant marginal cilia and marginal and laminal apothecia with veined lower surface and the thickness of the upper cortex with 60 - 80 μm.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
0C81B12C338C5FD98DDDBFB015FD3B7B.taxon	materials_examined	Type. Bolivia. Dept. Santa Cruz; Prov. Florida, Parque Nacional Amboro, above la Yunga Village, senda los Helechos, near view point, 18 ° 02 ' 50 " S, 63 ° 54 ' 50 " W, elev. 2330 m, Yungas cloud forest with abundant tree ferns, corticolous, 08 June 2011, M. Kukwa 9899 (holotype UGDA, isotype LPB).	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
0C81B12C338C5FD98DDDBFB015FD3B7B.taxon	description	Description. Primary photobiont a green alga. Stipe absent. Thallus irregular, up to 25 cm diam., moderately branched, with 3 - 5 branches per 5 cm radius, branching polytomous; lobes ligulate to laciniate, imbricate to adjacent, involute, with their apices rounded to obtuse and involute and their margins entire to sinuous, not thickened; lobe internodes (3 -) 7 - 10 (- 20) mm long, (4 -) 8 - 7 (- 18) mm broad; thallus coriaceous. Upper surface plane to rugose-pitted towards the centre, beige-brown with darker apices in the herbarium, shiny, with the brown marginal line; surface glabrous, without papillae, without pruina, but with irregular to indistinct, cream maculae, present in older parts of lobes; marginal cilia abundant, simple to fasciculated, light to dark brown, rarely white, up to 0.5 mm long. Apothecia abundant, principally submarginal to laminal, sparse to aggregated, subpedicellate, without pronounced invagination on lower side, up to 3 mm diam.; disc light brown to brown (mature) and yellow (young), shiny to matt; margin entire to crenate, hirsute, with brown hairs, abundant in young apothecia, sparse in old ones. Vegetative propagules absent. Lower surface with somewhat elevated, diffuse ridges, cream to brown towards the centre; primary tomentum dense, sparse towards the margin, thick but thinner towards the margin, spongy to fasciculate, soft, light brown to dark brown; secondary tomentum absent. Rhizines scarce, brown to white, up to 8 mm long. Cyphellae 1 - 20 per cm 2 towards the thallus centre and 21 - 40 per cm 2 towards the margin, scattered, rounded to irregular, urceolate with wide pore, erumpent to prominent, remaining below the level of the primary tomentum, with the margin raised and involute, cream-coloured, with tomentum; pore 0.5 - 1.5 mm diam.; basal membrane pruinose in appearance, white to cream, K + pale yellow, C-, KC-, Pd-. Medulla lax to compact, white, K-, C-, KC-, Pd-. No substances detected by TLC. Upper cortex paraplectenchymatous, 60 - 80 μm thick, consisting of 6 - 7 cell layers with cells 6 - 16 μm diam. (with smaller cells in outside parts of the cortex), their walls 3 - 5 μm thick and their lumina rounded to isodiametric, 4 - 15 μm diam. Photobiont layer 35 - 50 μm thick, its cells 5 - 8 μm diam. Medulla 150 - 220 μm thick, its hyphae 4 - 5 μm broad, without crystals. Lower cortex paraplectenchymatous, 30 - 45 μm thick, with 3 - 4 cell layers; cells 6 - 17 μm diam., their walls 2 - 7 μm thick. Hairs of lower primary tomentum up to 1 mm long, in fascicles of 12 - 20, hyphae unbranched, 5 - 6 μm wide with rugose walls, forming a brush-like head with free apices. Cyphella cavity up to 300 μm deep; compacted cells of basal membrane rarely with one papillae. Apothecia biatorine, up to 700 μm high, without distinct stipe; excipulum 125 - 175 μm broad, laterally with projecting hairs, 50 μm long, simple or in groups. Hymenium 100 - 110 μm high, K + yellow; epihymenium up to 20 μm high, yellow-brown, K + yellow intensifying, with gelatinous upper layer, ca. 5 μm high. Asci 6 - 8 - spored, ascospores fusiform, 1 - 3 - septate, 27 - 42 x 6 - 10 μm.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
0C81B12C338C5FD98DDDBFB015FD3B7B.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The name refers the Parque Nacional Amboro, where the species was found.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
0C81B12C338C5FD98DDDBFB015FD3B7B.taxon	materials_examined	Additional material examined. Bolivia. Dept. Santa Cruz; Prov. Florida, Parque Nacional Amboro, above la Yunga Village, senda los Helechos, near view point, 18 ° 02 ' 50 " S, 63 ° 54 ' 50 " W, elev. 2330 m, Yungas cloud forest with abundant tree ferns, 08 June 2011, M. Kukwa 9899 a (LPB, UGDA).	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
1051532282385FCBA5B9B27353273FF1.taxon	description	Fig. 3	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
1051532282385FCBA5B9B27353273FF1.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Differing from S. narinioana in the presence of laminal isidia and in the absence of apothecia, as well as the less densely arranged cyphellae.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
1051532282385FCBA5B9B27353273FF1.taxon	materials_examined	Type. Bolivia. Dept. La Paz; Prov. Nor Yungas, Parque Nacional y Area Natural de Manejo Integrado Cotapata, near Urpuma colony, 16 ° 13 ' 20 " S, 67 ° 52 ' 34 " W, elev. 1989 m, Yungas montane forest, 30 June 2010, A. Flakus 17220 & P. Rodriguez-Flakus (holotype KRAM, isotype LPB).	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
1051532282385FCBA5B9B27353273FF1.taxon	description	Description. Primary photobiont cyanobacterial (Nostoc). Stipe absent. Thallus orbicular to irregular, up to 5 cm diam., sparsely branched, with 0 - 2 branches per 5 cm radius, branching pleurotomous; lobes suborbicular to flabellate, interspaced to adjacent, plane to undulate, with their apices rounded and revolute and their margins entire to sinuous, not thickened; lobe internodes (1 -) 2 - 4 (- 7) mm long, (3 -) 5 - 6 (- 10) mm broad; thallus subcoriaceous. Upper surface smooth to pitted or rugose towards the centre, brownish-yellow with darker apices in the herbarium, shiny; surface glabrous, without papillae and pruina, but with irregular, scattered, yellow maculae; marginal cilia absent. Apothecia absent. Vegetative propagules present, abundant, in the form of isidia, predominantly laminal, aggregate, richly branched from the beginning, isidial branches cylindrical to coralloid, vertical, up to 0.6 mm long and 0.05 mm broad, darker than the thallus, grey, shiny; in cross-section, round or rarely slightly flattened. Lower surface with somewhat elevated, diffuse ridges, yellow to brown towards the centre; primary tomentum dense to the margin, thick but thinner towards the margin, spongy to fasciculate, soft, golden to chocolate; secondary tomentum present, arachnoid. Rhizines absent. Cyphellae sparse, 1 - 10 per cm 2 towards the thallus centre and 1 - 20 per cm 2 towards the margin, scattered, angular to irregular, urceolate with wide pore, prominent, remaining below the level of the primary tomentum, with the margin raised and involute, cream-coloured, with or without tomentum; pore 0.25 - 0.75 mm diam.; basal membrane + / - smooth, white, K-, C-, KC-, Pd-. Medulla compact, cream, K-, C-, KC-, Pd-. No substances detected by TLC. Upper cortex paraplectenchymatous, 15 - 40 μm thick, consisting of 2 - 3 cell layers with cells 7 - 18 μm diam. (with smaller cells in outside parts of the cortex), their walls 0.6 - 2 μm thick and their lumina rounded to isodiametric, 6 - 17 μm diam. Photobiont layer 25 - 70 μm thick, its cells 4 - 20 μm diam. Medulla 30 - 70 μm thick, its hyphae 2.5 - 6 μm broad, without crystals. Lower cortex paraplectenchymatous, 30 - 50 μm thick, with 3 cell layers; cells 6 - 20 μm diam., their walls 2 - 4 μm thick. Hairs of lower primary tomentum 150 - 400 μm long, in fascicles of more than 20, hyphae simple, septate with interlocked apices. Cyphella cavity up to 130 μm deep; cells of basal membrane without papillae or with single papillae. Apothecia not observed.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
1051532282385FCBA5B9B27353273FF1.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The name refers the Aymara people in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America who coined the term Yungas.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
8FEE5013C6CE592C8E1F6570F7C6ECB0.taxon	description	Fig. 4	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
8FEE5013C6CE592C8E1F6570F7C6ECB0.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Differing from S. pseudoimpressula in the predominantly bicellular spores and the absence of secondary tomentum and the K + violet (instead of carmine-red) reaction of the apothecial atraquinone.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
8FEE5013C6CE592C8E1F6570F7C6ECB0.taxon	materials_examined	Type. Bolivia. Dept. La Paz; Prov. Franz Tamayo, Parque Nacional y Area Natural de Manejo Integrado Madidi, near Keara Bajo, 14 ° 41 ' 59 " S, 69 ° 04 ' 34 " W, elev. 3290 m, open area with shrubs and scattered trees, Ceja de Monte Inferior (Altimontano), on shrubs, 17 Nov 2014, M. Kukwa 14859 (holotype UGDA, isotype LPB).	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
8FEE5013C6CE592C8E1F6570F7C6ECB0.taxon	description	Description. Primary photobiont cyanobacterial (Nostoc). Stipe absent. Thallus irregular to suborbicular, up to 10 cm diam., moderately branched, with 3 - 5 branches per 5 cm radius, branching polytomous; lobes laciniate to flabellate, adjacent, involute to weakly canaliculate, with obtuse to truncate, plane to revolute apices and their margins entire, slightly thickened; lobe internodes (3 -) 6 - 8 (- 20) mm long, (4 -) 7 - 10 (- 13) mm broad; thallus coriaceous. Upper surface pitted to shallowly scrobiculate to rugose, light brown with darker apices in the herbarium, shiny, with the marginal line in the same colour; surface glabrous, without papillae and pruina, without maculae; marginal cilia present, about 0.5 mm, abundant to scarce, white to golden brown, agglutinated. Apothecia scarce, laminal, dispersed, subpedicellate, with pronounced invagination on lower side, up to 2.5 mm diam.; disc orange-brown (in young apothecia) to brown or greenish (in older apothecia) due to the presence of pruina, along the margin with an orange pigment; margin hirsute, with white to golden brown hairs. Vegetative propagules absent. Lower surface uneven, beige to light brown; primary tomentum dense to the margin, thick, but thinner towards the margin, spongy, soft, white to dark brown often with brown tips; secondary tomentum absent. Rhizines absent. Cyphellae 1 - 10 per cm 2 towards the thallus centre and 21 - 40 per cm 2 towards the margin, abundant, scattered, rounded to irregular, urceolate with wide pore, prominent, remaining below the level of the primary tomentum, with the margin raised and involute, white to brown coloured, without or with tomentum at the base; pore (0.25 -) 0.5 - 1 (- 1.5) mm diam.; basal membrane pruinose in the appearance, white, K- to K + yellow, C-, KC-, Pd-. Medulla compact, white with yellow spots, K + pale yellow, C-, KC-, Pd-. Apothecial margin (ring around disc) and epihymenium K + violet. No substances detected by TLC in the thallus, unidentified anthraquinone in the apothecia. Upper cortex paraplectenchymatous, 35 - 50 μm thick, consisting of 3 - 4 layers of cells 5 - 16 μm diam. (with smaller cells in outside parts of the cortex), their walls 1.5 - 3.5 μm thick and their lumina rounded to isodiametric, 4 - 15 μm diam. Photobiont layer 40 - 80 μm thick, its cells 5 - 10 μm diam. Medulla 35 - 50 μm thick, its hyphae 5 μm broad, without crystals. Lower cortex paraplectenchymatous, 25 - 35 μm thick, with 2 - 3 cell layers; cells 7 - 13 μm diam., their walls 2.5 - 5 μm thick. Hairs of lower primary tomentum 100 - 250 μm long, in fascicles of more than 20 when mature, simple to rarely branched hyphae, 5 - 6 μm broad, septate with free apices. Cyphella cavity up to 100 μm deep; cells of basal membrane loosely packed consisting of cells, without papillae or very rarely, with one papillae. Apothecia biatorine, up to 100 - 250 μm high, without a peduncle; excipulum 80 - 100 μm broad, laterally with projecting hairs, hairs simple, up to 110 μm long or in groups up to 300 μm long, hairs 4 - 6 μm broad, thick-walled, septate. Hymenium 100 - 112 μm high; epihymenium 12.5 - 20 μm high, orange-brown, with orange granules crystals, with thin gelatinous upper layer. Asci 6 - 8 - spored, ascospores broadly fusiform, 1 (- 3) - septate, 30 - 41 x 9 - 12 μm.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
8FEE5013C6CE592C8E1F6570F7C6ECB0.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The epithet refers to the predominance of bicellular spores.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
8FEE5013C6CE592C8E1F6570F7C6ECB0.taxon	materials_examined	Additional material examined. Bolivia. Dept. La Paz; Prov. Franz Tamayo, Parque Nacional y Area Natural de Manejo Integrado Madidi, near Keara Bajo, 14 ° 41 ' 59 " S, 69 ° 04 ' 34 " W, elev. 3290 m, open area with shrubs and scattered trees, Ceja de Monte Inferior (Altimontano), on shrubs, 17 Nov 2014, M. Kukwa 14863 (LPB, UGDA).	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
ADDA34D598475E48B572F6BF2A318492.taxon	description	Fig. 5	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
ADDA34D598475E48B572F6BF2A318492.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Differing from S. andina in the green algal photobiont, the absence of vegetative propagules and the yellow medulla.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
ADDA34D598475E48B572F6BF2A318492.taxon	materials_examined	Type. Bolivia. Dept. Cochabamba; Prov. Carrasco, Parque Nacional Carrasco, Meruvia close to Monte Punku, 17 ° 35 ' 06 " S, 65 ° 14 ' 54 " W, elev. 3283 m, Podocarpus-Polylepis forest, Ceja de Monte Inferior (Altimontano), corticolous, 26 Nov 2014, M. Kukwa 15028 (holotype UGDA, isotype LPB).	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
ADDA34D598475E48B572F6BF2A318492.taxon	description	Description. Primary photobiont a green alga. Stipe absent. Thallus irregular to suborbicular, up to 30 cm diam., moderately branched, with 3 - 5 branches per 5 cm radius, branching pleurotomus; lobes laciniate to flabellate, interspaced to adjacent, involute, with their apices rounded and plane to involute and their margins entire, not thickened; lobe internodes (3 -) 6 - 9 (- 10) mm long, (3 -) 9 - 10 (- 12) mm broad; thallus coriaceous. Upper surface shallowly scrobiculate to rugose, yellow-brown to light brown, with darker apices in the herbarium, shiny; surface glabrous, without papillae, pruina and weakly maculate; marginal cilia present, brown, about 0.2 mm long, fasciculate. Apothecia abundant, marginal to laminal, dispersed to arranged, sometimes imbricate, subpedicellate, with pronounced invagination on lower side, up to 4 mm diam.; disc orange-brown (young apothecia) to red-brown (older apothecia), very shiny when young; margin crenate, hirsute, with dark brown hairs. Vegetative propagules absent. Lower surface somewhat ridged, yellow to dark brown towards the centre; primary tomentum dense to the margin, thick, thinner towards the margin, spongy, soft, pale to dark brown; secondary tomentum very scarce, up to 25 μm. Rhizines present, about 2 mm, brown with paler tips, fibrillose. Cyphellae 1 - 10 per cm 2 towards the thallus centre and 21 - 40 per cm 2 towards the margin, scattered, round to irregular, urceolate with wide pore, erumpent to prominent, remaining below the level of the primary tomentum, with the margin raised and involute, brown-coloured, without tomentum or with in the lower part; pore (0.2 -) 0.3 - 0.5 (- 0.6) mm diam.; basal membrane pruinose in the appearance, white to yellow, K- to K + yellow, C-, KC-, Pd-. Medulla compact, pale yellow to yellow, K + lemon-yellow, C-, KC-, Pd-. No substances detected by TLC. Upper cortex paraplectenchymatous, external part orange-brown, 40 - 60 μm thick, consisting of 6 - 7 cell layers with cells 5 - 10 μm diam. (with smaller cells in outside parts of the cortex), their walls 2 - 3 μm thick and their lumina rounded to isodiametric, 3 - 10 μm diam., up to 12 μm broad. Photobiont layer 25 - 35 μm thick, its cells 4 - 6 μm diam. Medulla 120 - 150 μm thick, its hyphae 1.5 - 4.5 μm broad, without or with yellow crystals. Lower cortex paraplectenchymatous, 25 - 30 μm thick, with 3 cell layers; cells 6 - 16 μm diam., their walls 1 - 3 μm thick. Hairs of lower primary tomentum up to 1 mm long, in fascicles up to 12, forming intricate mass in the dense part of tomentum, hyphae unbranched, 5 - 7 μm broad, septate with free apices. Cyphella cavity up to 250 μm deep; loosely packed cells of basal membrane sometimes with one papilla. Apothecia biatorine, up to 1 mm high, without or very short stipe, about 300 μm long; excipulum up to 100 μm broad, laterally with projecting hairs, simple or in groups, hyphae rarely branched, up to 180 μm long. Hymenium up to 100 μm high; epihymenium up to 25 μm high, pale brown, without gelatinous upper layer. Asci 6 - 8 - spored, ascospores fusiform, 1 - 3 - septate, 26 - 33 x 7 - 9 μm.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
ADDA34D598475E48B572F6BF2A318492.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The name refers the type locality.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
E96F2E6F9F1E5CD699D4594526142C09.taxon	description	Fig. 6	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
E96F2E6F9F1E5CD699D4594526142C09.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Differing from other Sticta species in having a stipe, up to 1 cm long, a palmate thallus with abundant, submarginal to laminal apothecia, with the primary tomentum absent in the marginal parts of the thallus and a secondary tomentum present.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
E96F2E6F9F1E5CD699D4594526142C09.taxon	materials_examined	Type. Bolivia. Dept. La Paz; Prov. Nur Yungas, Parque Nacional y Area Natural de Manejo Integrado Cotapata, near Urpuma colony, 16 ° 13 ' 20 " S, 67 ° 52 ' 34 " W, elev. 1989 m, Yungas montane forest, 30 June 2010, A. Flakus 17263 & P. Rodriguez-Flakus (holotype KRAM, isotype LPB).	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
E96F2E6F9F1E5CD699D4594526142C09.taxon	description	Description. Primary photobiont cyanobacterial (Nostoc). Stipe present, up to 1 cm long. Thallus palmate, up to 10 cm diam., moderately branched, with 3 - 5 branches per 5 cm radius, branching anisotomous to pleurotomous; lobes suborbicular to flabellate, interspaced to adjacent, involute, with their apices rounded and plane and their margins entire to sinuous, not thickened; lobe internodes (4 -) 6 - 15 (- 20) mm long, (6 -) 10 - 10 (- 20) mm broad; thallus coriaceous. Upper surface smooth to shallowly rugose in some parts, brown-grey, darker in the margins, shiny; surface glabrous, without papillae and pruina, without maculae; marginal cilia abundant, agglutinated to fasciculated, dark brown with pale tips, up to 0.5 mm long. Apothecia abundant, principally submarginal to laminal, dispersed, subpedicellate, sessile, up to 1.5 mm diam.; disc reddish-brown, shiny (in young apothecia) to matt (in older); margin entire to weakly crenate, excipulum hairs few to dense. Vegetative propagules absent. Lower surface folded to distinctly ridged and forming a reticulate pattern especially towards the margins, yellowish-brown to brown towards the centre; primary tomentum scarce, absent in the marginal part of the thallus, fasciculate, soft, golden brown; secondary tomentum present, arachnoid, up to 25 μm. Rhizines absent. Cyphellae 1 - 20 per cm 2 towards the thallus centre and 21 - 40 per cm 2 towards the margin, scattered, irregular to elongate or rounded, urceolate with narrow to wide pore, prominent, on the same level as the primary tomentum or below, with the margin raised and involute to raised and involute-circinate, brown coloured, with or without tomentum; pore (0.25 -) 0.5 - 1 (- 2) mm diam.; basal membrane smooth, white, K + yellowish, C-, KC-, Pd-. Medulla loose, white, K + / - yellowish, C-, KC-, Pd-. No substances detected by TLC. Upper cortex paraplectenchymatous, 20 - 50 μm thick, differentiated into two cellular layers, the upper layer consisting of 1 - 2 layers of cells, with cells 5 - 6 μm diam., their walls 1 - 2 μm thick and their lumina rounded to isodiametric, 4 - 6 μm diam.; the lower layer of cortex 2 - 3 layers of cells, with cells 8 - 15 μm diam., their walls 1 - 2.5 μm thick and their lumina rounded to isodiametric, 3 - 5 μm diam. Photobiont layer 20 - 60 μm thick, its cells 6 - 12 μm diam. Medulla 100 - 220 μm thick, its hyphae 3 - 5.5 μm broad, without crystals. Lower cortex paraplectenchymatous, 20 - 50 μm thick, with 2 - 4 cell layers; cells 8 - 17 μm diam., their walls 2 - 4 μm thick. Hairs of lower primary tomentum up to 220 μm long and 3 - 5 μm broad, in groups to rarely simple, in fascicles up to 15, hyphae unbranched, septate, with free apices forming a brush-like head. Cyphella cavity up to 120 μm deep; membrane of cells densely packed, cells of basal membrane with 2 - 4 papillae. Apothecia biatorine, ca. 500 μm high, without distinct stipe; excipulum up to 120 μm broad, without or with projecting hairs, simple to fasciculate. Hymenium 100 - 120 μm high, hyaline, but K + yellow; epihymenium ca. 10 μm high, orange-brown, K + orange intensifying, without gelatinous upper layer. Asci 6 - 8 - spored, ascospores fusiform, 2 - 4 - septate, 31 - 37 x 8 - 9 μm.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
E96F2E6F9F1E5CD699D4594526142C09.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The new species is named to honour our late friend and teacher, Polish botanist Dr Katarzyna Zolkos, for her contributions to the conservation of nature.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
28B9319C0C2F554499C1A802F8335AAA.taxon	description	Fig. 8	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
28B9319C0C2F554499C1A802F8335AAA.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Differing from S. aymara in the predominantly marginal and horizontally projecting isidia, the slightly projecting lower tomentum, giving the impression of marginal cilia, the absence of a secondary tomentum and the more densely arranged cyphellae.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
28B9319C0C2F554499C1A802F8335AAA.taxon	materials_examined	Type. Colombia. Dept. Narino; Laguna de la Cocha, Reserva el Encanto Andino, sendero al paramo, 01 ° 04 ' 12.3 " N, 77 ° 07 ' 38.1 " W, elev. 2810 m, andine forest, epiphytic on tree trunk, 24 Oct 2013, B. Moncada & R. Luecking 7614 (holotype UDBC, isotype B).	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
28B9319C0C2F554499C1A802F8335AAA.taxon	description	Description. Primary photobiont cyanobacterial (Nostoc). Stipe absent. Thallus orbicular to irregular, up to 5 cm diam., moderately branched, with 2 - 5 branches per 5 cm radius, branching pleurotomous; lobes suborbicular to flabellate, interspaced to adjacent, plane to undulate, with their apices rounded to somewhat truncate and revolute and their margins entire to sinuous, not thickened; lobe internodes (3 -) 5 - 10 mm long, (3 -) 5 - 8 (- 10) mm broad; thallus subcoriaceous. Upper surface smooth to uneven-rugose towards the centre, greyish-brown when fresh, light to medium yellowish-brown with darker apices in the herbarium, somewhat shiny; surface glabrous, without papillae, pruina or maculae; true marginal cilia absent, but lower tomentum partly projecting beyond the margins and resembling cilia. Apothecia rare to moderately abundant, submarginal, dispersed, subpedicellate, with invagination on lower side, up to 2 mm diam.; disc orange-brown, somewhat shiny; margin densely hirsute, with white hairs. Vegetative propagules present, abundant, in the form of isidia, predominantly marginal, becoming branched and somewhat coralloid, terminally cylindrical, but with the base flattened, more or less obliquely orientated, up to 0.1 mm long and 0.03 mm broad, dark brown and darker than the thallus, shiny. Lower surface somewhat uneven, beige, somewhat darker towards the centre; primary tomentum dense and comparatively thick to the margin, fasciculate, soft, whitish to cream-coloured or pale brownish; secondary tomentum absent, except for the lower sides of the apothecia. Rhizines absent. Cyphellae frequent, 10 - 20 per cm 2 towards the thallus centre and 20 - 50 per cm 2 towards the margin, dense, rounded to somewhat irregular, urceolate with wide pore, erumpent, remaining below the level of the primary tomentum, with the margin raised and involute, whitish to cream-coloured, with or without tomentum; pore 0.3 - 1.5 mm diam.; basal membrane + / - smooth, white, K-, C-, KC-, Pd-. Medulla compact, cream, K-, C-, KC-, Pd-. No substances detected by TLC. Upper cortex paraplectenchymatous, 20 - 40 μm thick, consisting of 2 - 4 layers of cells 8 - 15 μm diam. with thin, hyaline walls and one layer of smaller cells with thicker, yellowish-brown walls. Photobiont layer 20 - 30 μm thick, its cells 5 - 10 μm diam. Medulla 50 - 100 μm thick, its hyphae 2.5 - 5 μm broad, without crystals. Lower cortex paraplectenchymatous, 15 - 30 μm thick, consisting of 2 - 3 cell layers; cells 5 - 10 μm diam., their walls 1 - 2 μm thick, but lowermost walls much thicker. Hairs of lower primary tomentum 100 - 200 μm long, in fascicles of 5 - 20, hyphae simple, septate with partly intertwined apices. Cyphella cavity up to 150 μm deep; cells of basal membrane without papillae or with one papillae. Apothecia biatorine, up to 500 μm high, without distinct stipe; excipulum up to 100 μm broad, laterally with projecting hairs in groups, up to 0.5 mm long and 4 - 5 μm broad. Hypothecium 60 - 80 μm high, light yellowish-green. Hymenium 80 - 110 μm high; epihymenium 15 - 20 μm high, orange, with pigment granules, without gelatinous upper layer. Asci 8 - spored, ascospores fusiform, 1 - septate, 35 - 40 x 7 - 8 μm.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
28B9319C0C2F554499C1A802F8335AAA.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The epithet honours Antonio Amador Jose Narino (y Alvarez del Casal) (1765 - 1823), one of the critical architects of the independence of Colombia and after whom the Department of Narino was named.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
28B9319C0C2F554499C1A802F8335AAA.taxon	materials_examined	Additional material examined. Colombia. Dept. Narino; Laguna de la Cocha, Reserva el Encanto Andino, sendero al paramo, 01 ° 04 ' 12.3 " N, 77 ° 07 ' 38.1 " W, 2810 m elev., andine forest, epiphytic on tree trunk, 24 October 2013, B. Moncada & R. Luecking 7525 (B, UDBC). Boyaca: Garagoa, Vereda Cienaga, Valvanera, Reserva Privada El Secreto; 12 June 2014, D. Simijaca et al. 2044 (B, UDBC).	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
5C51FB82FADE532A8519E7C6EE94AF19.taxon	description	Fig. 7	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
5C51FB82FADE532A8519E7C6EE94AF19.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Differing from S. impressula in the presence of imbricately arranged and grouped apothecia with orange-yellow pruina along the margin of the disc, reacting K + carmine-red and in the presence of a secondary tomentum.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
5C51FB82FADE532A8519E7C6EE94AF19.taxon	materials_examined	Type. Bolivia. Dept. La Paz; Prov. Franz Tamayo, Area Natural de Manejo Integrado Nacional Apolobamba, near Rio Pelechuco, below Pelechuco close to new road to Apolo, 14 ° 46 ' 39 " S, 69 ° 00 ' 35 " W, elev. 2250 m, lower montane Yungas cloud forest, corticolous, 16 Nov 2014, M. Kukwa 14750 (holotype UGDA, isotype LPB).	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
5C51FB82FADE532A8519E7C6EE94AF19.taxon	description	Description. Primary photobiont cyanobacterial (Nostoc). Stipe absent. Thallus irregular to suborbicular, up to 10 cm diam., moderately branched, with 3 - 5 branches per 5 cm radius, branching polytomous; lobes laciniate to flabellate, adjacent, plane, with their apices orbicular and revolute to involute and their margins entire to crenate, not thickened; lobe internodes (4 -) 7 - 10 (- 15) mm long, (4 -) 7 - 9 (- 15) mm broad; thallus coriaceous. Upper surface pitted to scrobiculate to rugose towards the centre, yellowish-brown with darker apices in the herbarium, with marginal line in the same colour, shiny; surface glabrous, without papillae and pruina, without maculae; marginal cilia present, abundant, fasciculate, light brown to dark brown, about 0.5 mm. Apothecia abundant, laminal, dispersed, often imbricately arranged and grouped, subpedicellated, with pronounced invagination on lower side, up to 3.5 mm diam.; disc red-brown to brown, sometimes greenish-yellow due to the presence of pruina, shiny; margin entire to crenate and hirsute, with white hairs and orange-yellow pruina. Vegetative propagules absent. Lower surface uneven, beige to dark brown towards the centre; primary tomentum dense to the margin, thick (long), spongy, soft, grey-brown to black with paler tips; secondary tomentum present, but sparse, pubescent, up to 30 μm long. Rhizines sparse, black, up to 0.5 mm. Cyphellae 1 - 20 per cm 2 towards the thallus centre and 41 - 60 per cm 2 towards the margin, scattered, irregular, cupuliform to urceolate with wide pore, prominent, below the level of the primary tomentum, with the margin erect, cream to brown coloured, without or with tomentum in the lower half; pore (0.5 -) 0.6 - 1.3 (- 2.5) mm diam.; basal membrane pruinose in the appearance, white to pale beige in older part of thallus; K- to K + pale yellow, C-, KC-, Pd-. Medulla compact, beige-white, K + yellow, C-, KC-, Pd-. Apothecia margin (ring around disc) and epihymenium K + carmine-red. No substances detected by TLC, unidentified anthraquinone in apothecia. Upper cortex paraplectenchymatous, 20 - 40 μm thick, consisting of 2 - 3 cell layers with cells 6 - 22 μm diam. (with smaller cells in outside parts of the cortex), their walls 1 - 2 μm thick and their lumina rounded to isodiametric, 5 - 21 μm diam. Photobiont layer 60 - 110 μm thick, its cells 7 - 18 μm diam. Medulla 30 - 100 μm thick, its hyphae 3 - 5 μm broad, without crystals. Lower cortex paraplectenchymatous, 25 - 40 μm thick, with 3 - 4 cell layers; cells 8 - 18 μm diam., their walls 2 - 4 μm thick. Hairs of lower primary tomentum up to 1000 μm long, in fascicles of more than 20, hyphae unbranched to rarely branched, septate with flexuous apices. Cyphella cavity 100 - 125 μm deep; cells of basal membrane loosely packed consisting of cells without papillae or very rarely one. Apothecia biatorine, up to 700 μm high, without distinct stipe; excipulum up to 125 μm broad, laterally with projecting hairs, in groups to rarely simple, up to 0.5 mm, 5 - 6 μm broad. Hymenium 80 - 110 μm high; epihymenium 20 μm high, orange, with pigment granules on the top, without gelatinous upper layer. Asci 6 - 8 - spored, ascospores fusiform, 1 - 3 - septate, 28 - 35 x 8.5 - 10 μm.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
5C51FB82FADE532A8519E7C6EE94AF19.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The name refers to the similarity in morphology to Sticta impressula.	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
5C51FB82FADE532A8519E7C6EE94AF19.taxon	materials_examined	Additional material examined. Bolivia. Dept. La Paz; Prov. Franz Tamayo, Area Natural de Manejo Integrado Nacional Apolobamba, near Rio Pelechuco, below Pelechuco close to new road to Apolo, 14 ° 46 ' 39 " S, 69 ° 00 ' 35 " W, elev. 2250 m, lower montane Yungas cloud forest, corticolous, 16 Nov 2014, M. Kukwa 14752 (LPB, UGDA).	en	Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Moncada, Bibiana, Kukwa, Martin, Flakus, Adam, Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela, Olszewska, Sandra, Luecking, Robert (2022): New species of Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia suggest a high level of endemism in the Central Andes. MycoKeys 92: 131-160, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.92.89960
