Hiroshi Harada

• Doctor of Science
• Researcher at Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba

Key to the freshwater genera and species of pyrenocarpous lichens are provided. Habit photographs are presented for poorly known species: Anisomeridium japnica, Collemopsidium japonicum, Cyanopyrenia japonica, and Psoroglaena japonica. (In Japanese. With keys and illustrations in English)

A first comprehensive taxonomic study was conducted on saxicolous and corticolous species of the lichen genus Porina (Porinaceae) in Japan, and twenty species were recognized. Three new species are described: Porina flavonigra, P. tosaensis and P. yoshimurae. Four species are reported as new for Japan: P. exserta, P. orientalis, P. papuensis and P....

A taxonomic study of the freshwater species of Verrucaria in Japan recognizes 16 species, three of which are newly described. Verrucaria capitulata H.Harada sp. nov. is characterized by a very thin thallus, prominent perithecia with a round top, and relatively small ascospores (9 – 14 × 5 – 7 μm). Verrucaria craterigera H.Harada sp. nov. is unique...

A checklist of lichenized fungi and lichen-allies (including lichenicolous fungi) previously reported from Japan is compiled, and 1602 species in 317 genera are accepted. The list includes correct names and synonyms, each with selected literature, and is cross-indexed. The following 12 new combinations and 2 new names are made: Anthracothecium erig...

As marine and maritime species of Verrucariaceae in Japan, two species of Hydropunctaria and ten species of Verrucaria are recognized: Hydropunctaria amphibia, H. maura, Verrucaria ditmarsica, V. fuscella, V. halizoa, V. iwatsukii, V. marinomuralis, V. miyagiensis, V. praeviella, V. sandstedei, V. sanrikuensis, and V. submicrospora. Habit photograp...

Xylographa parallela was poorly known in Japan, and is described in detail with illustrations. It was found growing on the lignum of a coniferous log placed on the ground in the subalpine zone in central Japan./ HARADA Hiroshi. 2024. Lichen flora of Japan (12). Xylographa parallela. Lichenology 23(2): 101-107. (In Japanese)/ Xylographa parallela モク...

Lichinella yoshimurae is described as new from Japan. It is characterized by the following characters: thallus subfruticulose, squamulose, composed of repeatedly branched dorsiventral lobes, first forming rosette, becoming an almost spherical cushion; thallinocarpous apothecia terminal to subterminal, disciform, becoming constricted at base; thallu...

Twelve species of saxicolous and/ or corticolous Porina are reported from Taiwan, based on the collection made during a trip designated for clarifying a diversity of freshwater species of lichens, in 2005. The saxicolous Porina laii is described as new, and three species are newly added to the lichen flora of Taiwan: P. bacillifera, P. flavonigra a...

Lichen flora was first investigated on Mt. Naeba (Naeba-san), Nagano-ken (Nagano Pref.), central Japan, with field surveys in 2013 and 2014. This paper reports 131 species, based on the collected specimens, of which 128 species are the first records on this mountain. Illustrations are provided for the saxicolous crustose lichens, Ainoa mooreana and...

Hydropunctaria nipponoamphibia in the Family Verrucariaceae is described as new from Japan. This new species closely resembles H. amphibia, but the black dots are not radiating and the cracks are sparse over the thallus. In addition, they clearly differ from each other in DNA sequences (ITS region). This new species was originally reported as H. am...

Lempholemma tanakae is described as new from Japan. It is characterized by the fruticulose thallus forming an almost hemispherical cushion (ca. 1 cm across), composed of repeatedly branched terete branches bearing secondary branches first looking like isidia, epruinose on the surface, and lacking hormocystangia at the apices. Apothecia are biatorin...

The lichen genus Peltula of Japan is documented, with a description and illustrations for each new taxon in detail. In addition to the previously known P. euploca and P. japonica , P. obscurans var. boninensis var. nov. and P. yoshimurae sp. nov. are newly described, and P. obscurans var. obscurans and P. placodizans are reported as new for Japan....

Monoblastia pellucida is reported as new for Japan, based on the specimen collected from the subtropical Iriomote Island of Yaeyama Islands. An anatomical observation has first revealed very unique structure of the perispores of its ascospores in this species. They are sculptured as a reticulum of sharp ridges outwardly as shown in the original des...

Saxicolous and corticolous species of the lichen genus Porina is documented based on the specimens collected on the subtropical Iriomote Island of Yaeyama Islands, Ryukyu Archipelago, at the southwesternmost edge of Japan. Seventeen species were recognized, which include the four species new to Japan: Porina africana, P. bacillifera, P. crassa and...

Physma boninense in the family Pannariaceae is described as new from Ani-jima Island of the subtropical Ogasawara Islands, ca. 1000 km S of Tokyo, southern Japan. It is similar to P. radians in having linear lobes with rugose surface, but the lobes are ascending and much smaller. A tentative key to the Japanese species of Physma, now represented by...

This is the first comprehensive study on calcicolous species of the genus Collema s.lat. (Collemataceae) in Japan. Eight species in four genera are recognized: Callome multipartita (new genus to Japan), Collema texanum, Enchylium coccophorum, E. nipponicum, E. tenax, Lathagrium auriforme, Lathagrium fuscovirens (new to Japan), L. latzelii, L. undul...

As a part of series of papers dealing with the Japanese lichens "Lichen Flora of Japan", Spilonema revertens is documented with a detailed description and illustrations. (In Japanese)./ Harda H. 2023. Lichenology 22 (1·2): 75-80./ 原田浩．2023．日本地衣類誌(10) ．Spilonema revertens カタマリケゴケ．Lichenology 22 (1·2): 75-80./ 日本産地衣類を詳細にまとめていく一連の論文「日本地衣類誌」の一つとして，本稿では...

Psorotichia yoshimurae, an aquatic freshwater species is described as new. It is unique within Psorotichia by having a continuous, smooth thallus. It was found growing on periodically inundated riverside rocks of the Shimanto River, Kochi, Shikoku, western Japan. / Harada H.: Psorotichia yoshimurae sp. nov., a new freshwater species of crustose cya...

This paper reports two species of Lichinella as marine and maritime lichens of Japan: Lichinella litoralis sp. nov. and L. tenuis sp. nov. Both species have crustose or almost crustose thalli, growing on seaside rocks. The thallus of L. litoralis looks distinctly areolate, but is actually coralloid with very short branches appressed to one another....

Placidium squamulosum in the family Verrucariaceae is reported from Chiba-ken, central Japan, with a detailed description and illustrations. (In Japanese)/ドロヒメカワイワタケ(子嚢地衣類，アナイボゴケ科)は千葉県 に産す．Lichenology 22 (1·2): 37-42. / ドロヒメカワイワタケ Placidium squamulosum の千葉県内における生育を確認した．この標本に基づく詳細な記載と図を示す．本種は国内では石灰岩生と考えられていたが，石灰岩地ではない千葉県において発見されたことは特筆に値する．

The secondary metabolites of fourteen samples of marine and maritime species of the lichen genus Enterographa in Japan, were analyzed by LC-MS, and two groups were recognized based on whether gyrophoric acid was detected or not. In the latter group, psoromic acid and an unidentified compound were present./ Tanikawa et al. 2023. Lichenology 22: 33-3...

As a part of our project to clarify the biodiversity of marine and maritime lichens in Japan, Teloschistaceae was investigated, and 6 species (6 genera) are recognized: Loekoesia austrocoreana, Mikhtomia multicolor, Orientophila subscopularis, Oxneriopsis yeosuensis, Yoshimuria spodoplaca and Zeroviella mandschurica. Chemical data is presented for...

Phloeopeccania japonica of the family Lichinaceae is described as new from Chiba-ken, central Japan. It differs from the most similar species P. pulvinulina by constantly producing 8 ascospores per ascus and larger areoles. This lichen was found growing on stonewalls of shrines and other rocks at more-or-less sunny sites, in the warmtemperate zone....

Ninety nine specimens were examined in order to clarify the taxonomy of the Japanese so-called Bulbothrix isidiza. All the specimens were identifi ed as B. subscortea based on the emaculate dorsal surface of the thalli and other morphological characters, and chemistry. Phylogenetic analysis (Bayesian and RAxML) based on a single gene (the nucleotid...

Calcicolous species of the lichen genus Leptogium s.lat. (Collemataceae) was examined, and five species, all in the genus Scytinium, were recognized: S. callopisumu, S. gelatinosum (new to Japan), S. intermedium, S. lichenoides, and S. palmatum. A description in detail, with illustration is presented for each species, excepting S. callopismum. (Lic...

In Japan, Flakea papillata, a squamulose lichen in the family Verrucariaceae, has bee previously reported only once but with no illustration and description in detail. The present paper presents a detailed description with illustration based on the Japanese specimens, compared with the type from Cuba. (Lichenology 21: 19-24)(In Japanese)/ アナイボゴケ科の鱗...

As a part of our study on marine and maritime lichens of Japan, genus Pertusaria was examined and three species are reported: P. astomoides, P. flavicans and P. subobductans. Sequences of ITS region of rDNA were obtained for P. astomoides and P. flavicans. Three species were examined for chemistry by TLC and LC/ESIMS. A detailed description with il...

Lempholemma hahajimaense is described as new from Ogasawara Islands, southern Japan. It is characterized by the crustose thallus composed of granules, and ellipsoid ascospore [12.5–20 × 6–8.5 µm]. It was found growing on limestone rocks./ Lichenology 20(2): 33-40.

The calcicolous lichen, Catillaria lenticularis is documented on the basis of the Japanese specimens. A description with detailed illustrations is presented. (In Japanese)/ Lichenology 20(2): 49-54. 日本産の標本に基づきCatillaria lenticularis フタゴイボゴケの記載ならびに詳細な図を示した．「原田 浩．2022．石灰岩生地衣類（1）．Catillaria lenticularis フタゴイボゴケ． Lichenoloty 20 (2): 49-54.」

New localities of Flakea papillata are reported from Honshu and Kyushu, Japan. A description with detailed illustrations of external morphology and anatomy is presented based on the Japanese specimens. (In Japanese)/ Lichenology 20(2): 41-48. Flakea papillata （ハギレゴケ）の本州と九州の新産地を報告するとともに，日本産標本に基づき，記載ならびに詳細な図を示した．「原田 浩．2022．日本地衣類誌（８）．Flakea papillata...

The campylidiate lichen Pseudocalopadia chibaensis is newly reported from Tochigi-ken, central Jpana, and Yakushima Island, southwestern Japan, and with two additional localities from Chiba-ken. A detailed description with habit photographs are provided. (In Japanese with English abatract)/ Sakata et al. 2022. Lichenology 20(2): 55-58./ 坂田歩美・原田浩・小澤...

Polymeridium megalosporum is described as new from Japan. Among Polymeridium species, it is characterized by the thallus UV+ yellow, perithecia with apical ostiole and with very dark brown walls above, and ascospores muriform, large (62 – 111 × 32 – 48 μm), usually 1/ ascus. It was found growing on rocks covered with mosses in the warm temperate zo...

Arctomia teretiuscula is reported as new for Japan, based on a specimen collected around the top of Mt. Fuji. A detailed description with illustrations is given based on the Japanese specimen. This is the first record of the genus Arctomia in this country./ 2002年に富士山の山頂付近で採集した標本に基づき，Arctomia teretiuscula を日本新産（属としても新産）として報告する．日本産標本の形態等の詳細を記す．本種・属の和...

Strigula stigmatella is reported from Japan, with a detailed description and illustrations. It grows usually on bark, and sometimes on mosses. It was poorly known in this country, with only a single record from Toyama-ken, but is newly identified and reported from Toyama-ken, Gifu-ken and Chiba-ken at this time. This lichen is probably distributed...

Gabura insignis (= Leptogium insigne) in the family Arctomiaceae is reported as new for Japan. Two specimens were collected on the trunk of Zelkova serrata, in a gorge, 550 m elev., in the warmtem perate zone, in Kochi, Shikoku, western Japan./ ラン藻地衣のGebura insignis を日本新産の属・種として報告する．本種は，2017 年にアジア新産のLeptogium insigne として報告された種だが，最近の分子系統学的な研究により，Arc...

Two species of lichens are reported as new for Chiba-ken, central Japan: Pyxine limbulata and Trypetheliopsis yoshimurae.

The new species Porina pallidocarpa is described from Chiba-ken, central Japan. It was found growing on bark of evergreen hardwood, and is characterized by large, elevated, almost globose perithecia lacking a distinct involucrellum, large (95–111 × 13–17 μm) ascospores with transverse-septa (11–14-septate) and with a distinct perispore, inspersed h...

Lempholemma boninense is described as new from the subtropical, Ogasawara (or Bonin) Islands, southern Japan. This species resembles L. polycarpum from Yemen in having an umbilicate-squamulose thallus forming a rosette, but diff ers by having shorter (0.2–1.0 mm long, 0.2–0.6 mm wide) lobes and isidioid outgrowths. It was found growing on calcareou...

Pyrenopsis conturvatula in the family Lichinaceae is described in detail and illustrations are provided, as part of a series in our project to compile an illustrated flora of marine and maritime lichens of Japan. This species, originally described from Takashima near Nagasaki, Japan, was poorly known. Among the lichens in this habitat, it is easily...

Chrismofulvea rubifaciens is reported as new for Japan, and C. dialyta is rediscovered in this country for the fi rst time in over a century, since Vainio (1918) described Buellia dialytoides (=B. dialyta) based on a specimen collected from Mt. Daisen in 1913. Chrismofulvea rubifaciens was collected only once on bark of Cryptomeria japonica in Koch...

Cladonia rappii is reported as new for Chiba-ken, central Japan.

Diversity of marine and maritime lichens of Japan was investigated, and six species are reported for pyrenocarpous lichens excluding Verrucariaceae: Collemopsidium halodytes, Collemopsidium sublitorale, Porina guentheri, Porina leptalea, Strigula maritima and Thelenella luridella. A description and photographs are provided for each species based on...

Lepraria cupressicola was shown to occur frequently in Chiba-ken, central Japan, and to be widely distributed in Japan, based on over 100 specimens. It is characterized by pale bluish grey thallus composed of finely granulose soredia and forming weakly developed lobes, with a prominent mat of dark hyphae on the under side, and the production of lec...

Chiodecton leptosporum of Roccellaceae is reported as new for Chiba-ken, central Japan, based on a specimen collected in the University Forest of Chiba of University of Tokyo. A detailed description and illustration is provided.

As marine and maritime species of macrolichens in Japan, 19 species were recognized: Ramalina litoralis, R. siliquosa, R. subbreviuscula, Myelochroa leucotyliza, Parmotrema tinctorum, Xanthoparmelia botryoides, X. claviculata, X. coreana, X. saxeti, Phaeophyscia exornatula, P. limbata, P. spinellosa, Physcia albicans, Physciella melanchra, Dirinari...

A new locality of Thysanothecium scutellatum is reported in Japan, from Gunma-ken as the northernmost distributional range of this species. Galloway & Bartlett (1982) made a description of pycnidia in this species, which, however, includes only external morphology. Here we first present a detailed illustration of the vertical section of pycnidium a...

Cladonia samples were collected in Chiba, Japan, which are identifi ed as Cladonia ramulosa based on the conventional morphological concept. However, the nucleotide sequences of their ribosomal DNA-ITS region indicated that they are identical or close to that of C. rei. The samples collected in Kanagawa or Tochigi were also analyzed for their nucle...

Lichen flora was investigated in Nagasaki-ken (or Nagasaki Pref.), Kyushu, western Japan, and 43 species were recognized at Taki-no-kannon, Nagasaki city. It contains 9 species new to Nagasaki-ken, and without no record over 40 years for the most species./ Lichenology 18 (2): 99-103. (In Japanese)/ 長崎県の地衣類相解明を試みている．今回は長崎市の滝の観音で調査を行い，43種を認めた．これには9種の...

Alyxoria bicolor is reported as new for Asia, based on 23 specimens collected in Tochigi-ken, central Japan. It was found growing on the trunks of Quercus crispula, in the upper part of the cool-temperate zone. A detailed description with fi gures is presented based on the Japanese materials./ Lichenology 18 (2): 35-44.

Fungi are one of the most diverse carbon source-assimilating organisms, living as saprobes, parasites and symbionts; they play an important role in carbon cycling in the ecosystem. A lichen thallus provides habitats for many non-lichenized fungi and usually contains large quantities of polyols. However, research has not been undertaken to identify...

Lichenology 18(1): 9–13. / Anisomeridium yoshimurae is described as new from Japan. It closely resembles A. polycarpum, but the septum of ascospores is obviously non-median. This new species was found growing on the trunk of deciduous hardwood, Carpinus turczaninovii, in the warm-temperate zone in Kochi-ken, Shikoku, western Japan. A key is present...

Lichenology 18 (1): 15–18./ Lempholemma polyanthes is reported as new for Japan, based on the specimens from Hokkaido and Kochi-ken, Shikoku. A detailed description and illustrations are presented. (In Japanese) / イワノリ科のLempholemma polyanthes を北海道ならびに高知県産の標本に基づき日本新産として報告する．いずれの地点でも，石灰岩上に生育していた．本種の地衣体は亜葉状で，裂片同士が多少とも網目状に連結し，皮層を欠き同層で，ゼラチン質には数珠状の共生Nost...

Lichenology 18(1): 19–22./ Megaspora verrucosa is first reported from Nagano-ken, central Japan, after the record from Mt. Tsurugi, Tokushima-ken, the only locality of Japan. It was found growing on the mat of bryophytes covering limestone rock in the subalpine zone. A detailed description with illustration is presented based on the specimen from N...

Sculptolumina yunnanensis, a saxicolous lichenized fungus in the family Caliciaceae, is described as new from Yunnan, China. Its morphological characters include: ocher and epilithic thalli, pseudolecanorine or lecideine and sessile apothecia, flat and epruinose apothecial discs, Mischoblastia- type ascospores with funnel-shaped cell lumina and fil...

Two species of lichens are reported as new for Chiba-ken, central Japan: Heterodermia pseudospeciosa and Heterodermia tremulans. Descriptions and illustrations are provided for each species based on the specimens from Chiba.

Synalissa fluviatilis H.Harada is described as new from Gifu-ken, central Japan. It is characterized by main branches dichotomously branched with wide angles, with tufts of isidioid outgrowths, proper exciple well developed in sides of hymenium, ascospores relatively wide (12 – 15 × 7 – 8 μm). It was found growing on noncalcareous, riverside rocks,...

Monoblastia chibaensis is described as new, based on a specimen from the trunk of Ginkgo biloba, from the southern part of Chiba-ken, central Japan. It differs from the most closely related M. borinquensis and M. buckii by having smaller ascospores. Monoblastia chibaensis を新種記載する．本種は，最も近縁なM. borinquensis とM. buckii とは，子嚢胞子がより小さいことで区別できる．子嚢胞子が棘状の小突起...

Two species of Physcia are reported from Ueda-shi (or Ueda City), Nagano-ken (Nagano Pref.), central Japan. Physcia phaea is new to Nagano. This is the second record of P. tribacia in Japan. (In Japanese). 長野県上田市から，ムカデゴケ属2種を報告する．Physcia phaeaシロムカデゴケは長野県新産，Physcia tribaciaコナヘリシロムカデゴケは日本で2番目の記録である．/ Lichenology 17(2): 59-62.

HARADA Hiroshi, MASUZAKI Hiroaki & HASEGAWA Hirohiko. 2018. Leptogium intermedium (lichenized Ascomycota, Collemataceae), newly to Japan. Lichenology 17 (1): 5-7. Leptogium intermedium is reported as new for Japan, based on the specimens from Mt. Kitadake of Akaishi Mountains or the Minami-Alps (South Alps) in the central Honshu. A detailed descrip...

Harada H. 2018. Taxonomic notes on pyrenocarpous lichens in Japan (9). Megalotremis chibaensis sp. nov. (Monoblastiaceae). Lichenology 17(1): 1-4. Megalotremis chibaensis is described as new from Japan. It is characterized by having an ecorticate and whitish thallus (UV+ yellow), black perithecia with inclined ostiole, and relatively small (40-45 ×...

List of lichens collected in Omogo-kei Gorge, Shikoku is provided, based on the collection during field meetings made 2006 and 2012, enumerating 46 species. They include 16 species as new for Ehime-ken (Ehime Prefecture). (In Japanese)/ Harada et al. 2018. Lichenology 17(1): 13-15./ 原田浩・川又明徳・松本達雄．2018. 愛媛県面河渓の地衣類．－日本地衣学会第5回・11回観察会（2006年9月，2012年10月）...

New localities of nine species are reported in Japan: Coenogonium luteum, Flavopuncelia soredica, Icmadophila ericetorum, Lobaria crassior, Parmelinella wallichiana, Ramalina roesleri, Relicina abstrusa, Rimelia clavulifera and Usnea himalayana. (In Japanese)/ Harada H. & Sakata A. 2018. Lichenology 17(1): 31-32./ 原田浩・坂田歩美．2018．分布資料(45)．地衣類9種の新産地．L...

Gloeoheppia turgida is reported as new for China based on specimens from the arid valley of Jinsha-jiang river along the border between Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces. It is characterized by the following: thallus bullate-squamulose, dark greenish brown to olive-black, attached to the substratum by rhizohyphae; squamules infl ated, hollow inside, wit...

The freshwater species of lichen, Bacidia inundata (Fr.) Körb. is reported as new for Japan, based on the specimen collected on riverside rocks of a gorge in the cool-temperate zone, in Gifu-ken, central Japan. Detailed description with llustrations are presented, based on the Japanese specimen. (In Japanese) イボゴケ属の一種，Bacidia inundata を日本新産として報告する．...

Leptogium insigne is reported as new for Asia based on two specimens collected on trunks of Tsuga sinensis, at 2900 m elev. in Taiwan in 2005. A close anatomical examination of at the margin of the soralium-like structures at the margin of the thallus has revealed that these structure are true soralia and not “soredia-like isidia”.

Pseudocalopadia chibaensis is described as new based on specimens growing on twigs or branches in Chiba-ken, central Japan. Pseudocalopadia was known as monotypic before this study with the foliicolous P. mira as the type species, from which P. chibaensis diff ers by a rather distinct hypothallus, persistent apothecial margins, apothecia in section...

Field meetings were conducted twice by the Japanese Society for Lichenology at Ginzan-daira (810 m elev.) and Kodaki-no-sato-enchi (726 m elev.), Nikko-shi, Tochigi-ken, central Japan, in September 2008 and September 2009, when a small lichen collection was made. We later made collections between April 2007 and August 2009, and in May 2016, in orde...

Caloplaca cerina var. chloroleuca (Sm.) Th.Fr. is reported as new for Japan, based on specimen growing over mosses on serpentine rock in “the alpine zone” in Hokkaido Island, northern Japan, collected in 1986. Vertical sections of apothecia of the Japanese specimen revealed the occurrence of calcium oxalate crystals among orange pigments in the epi...

Sarcogyne regularis Körb. is reported as new for Japan, based on specimens from Chiba-ken, central Japan. They were collected on mudstone or sandstone rocks, which are not obviously calcareous. This species is locally recognizable by the pale endolithic thallus and sessile lecideine apothecia with reddish black disc ± covered by whitish pruina. (In...

Buellia erubescens is reported as new for Japan. It was found growing on bark of deciduous hardwoods in the subalpine zone, in Nagano-ken, central Japan. A detailed description together with illustrations is provided based on the Japanese materials. Phylogenetic analysis of the ITS sequences supported the Japanese specimens belong to B. erubescens.

Psoroma tenue var. boreale Henssen is reported as new for Japan, based on a single specimen collected on Mt. Fuji in 1979. This specimen is not typical of this species, because discs of the apothecia tend to be concave in this specimen whereas they are flat according to Jørgenssen (2000, 2004). (In Japanese) ムニンゴケ属地衣類の一種，ミヤマムニンゴケ（Psoroma tenue var....

Anisomeridium throwerae is reported as new for Japan. It was found growing on the trunk of an evergreen hardwood, Cinnamomum japonicum, in forests in the warm-temperate zone in Kagoshima-ken, Kyushu, southwestern Japan. A detailed description with illustrations is provided based on the Japanese material. Anisomeridiium throwerae を日本新産として報告する．日本産地衣類...

Leptogium kiyosumiense H.Harada, a member of the Mallotium-group is described as new from Chiba-ken, central Japan. It is characterized by blueish, heavily wrinkled thallus with granular, botryoid to globular and cerebriform isidia, ventral surface with whitish and purplish tomentum, apothecia constricted at base, lacking a prominent stalk, heavily...

Trypetheliopsis yoshimurae is described as new from Japan. It differs from the previously known species of this genus by the lack of red pigments in perithecial verrucae and pycnidia, non-foliicolous habit, perithecia aggregated in perithecial verrucae, inspersed hymenium and the dimension of ascospores (55 – 74 × 17 – 22 μm). Trypetheliopsis yoshi...

Buellia yoshimurae A.Higashi, Watanuki & H.Harada is newly described from Japan. It is characterized by the epilithic, whitish thallus, almost areolate in the center but rimose at the periphery; medulla lacking calcium oxalate crystals, I− but I+ deep blue in parts; apothecia immersed in the thallus, with blackish, epruinose disc and proper exciple...

Chiodecton mucorinum is reported as new for Yunnan and as the fi rst record of this species since the original description from Fujian, China. A detailed description and fi gures are provided based on the specimens from Yunnan.

Two corticolous species of Mazosia are described as new from Japan. Mazosia bruguierae is characterized by the following: (1) apothecia prominently elevated above the thallus, sharply delimited in outline, (2) thalloid exciple colorless, but dark brown around calcium oxalate crystals (transversely widely ellipsoid, 25 – 90 μm long and 20 – 50 μm hi...

Direct-injection electron-ionization-mass spectrometry (DI-EI-MS) is a multivariate analysis method useful for characterizing biological materials. We demonstrated the use of DI-EI-MS for metabolic profiling using several closely related lichen species: Cladonia krempelhuberi, C. gracilis, C. pseudogymnopoda, and C. ramulosa. The methodology involv...

Color illustration: Fig. 2 in Harada H. (2015. Thelocarpon epibolum (Ascomycota, Thelocarpaceae) newly found in Japan. Lichenology 13(2): 53-57) published in Black & White.

Buellia numerosa and B. subnumerosa are described as new from Japan. These two corticolous species share common morphological characters: whitish, smooth to rimose thallus; adnate apothecia; flat, epruinose disc; dispersa-type proper exciple; numerous ascospores per ascus; and Buellia-type ascospores. In addition, they share chemical characters: pr...

Lichen flora was investigated in the University of Tokyo Chiba Forest, Chiba-ken, central Japan, from February 2011 to March 2016, and 151 species were recognized, including 22 species new for Chiba-ken. ..... It also contains the species which were recently reported as new for Chiba or described as new in our recent papers: Cresporhaphis chibaensi...

Summary of "Lichen Flora of Japan" Project, with an updated list of the publications concerned.

This is a Japanese version of “Lichen Flora of Japan” Project (ver. 2017.03.25). 「日本の地衣フロラ解明プロジェクト（2017.03.25）」（英語版）の日本語版である．

Gyalidea izuensis H.Harada is described as new from Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka-ken, central Japan. It is characterized by: the thin, epilithic thallus lacking goniocystangia, and the pale brown apothecia 0.25 – 0.4 mm diam., with concave disc, thin proper exciple ca. 25 μm thick at the sides, hymenium 105 – 125 μm high, ascospores 8 per ascus, 21 – 32...

Heterodermia subascendens, a poorly known foliose lichen in Japan is documented, with description, illustration and distribution map. Atranorin, zeorin, 7-chloroemodin and unidentified substances were detected by thin-layer chromatography (TLC), but skyrin was not demonstrated. (In Japanese) 日本産Heterodermia subascendens コフキゲジゲジゴケの記載，図，分布図を示した．薄層クロマ...

Lichen genus Physcia s.str. of Japan is documented. The following eight species are recognized: Physcia aipolia, Physcia albicans, Physcia caesia, Physcia dubia, Physcia orientalis, Physcia phaea, Physcia stellaris and Physcia tribacia. Description, illustration, distribution in Japan with map etc are presented for each species. A key to the specie...

Polymeridium proponens is reported as new for Japan. It was found growing on trunks of evergreen hardwoods, and deciduous hardwoods as well, in forests in the warm-temperate zone around Kiyosumi-yama (or Kiyosumi Hill) in the southern part of Chiba-ken (or Chiba Prefecture), on the Pacifi c side of central Japan. The thalli reacted UV+ yellow, but...

Lichen flora was investigated in Ueda-shi (or Ueda City), Nagano-ken (Nagano Pref.), central Japan. This paper reports 15 species which are commonly found in the warm-temperate zone, but were not or sporadically reported from Nagano. Three species are new for Nagano: Hyperphyscia crocata, Hypotrachyna revoluta and Protoparmeliopsis muralis. (In Jap...

New Japanese names are proposed for 23 species of the lichen genus Lecanora and Protoparmeliopsis muralis. (In Japanese). 日本産チャシブゴケ属（Lecanora）地衣類23種と，チャシブゴケ属として知られていた1種の計24種について，新たに和名を提案した．

Lichen flora of Yunnan, China was studied by H.Harada, a staff of CBM (Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba) in cooperation with Li-song Wang et al. of KUN-L (Lichen herbarium at Kunming Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica). Contributions are listed.

Gyalidea oosumiensis H.Harada & A.Sakata is described as new from Kagoshima-ken, Kyushu, southwestern Japan. It is characterized by saxicolous habit, medium-sized (0.3 – 0.6 mm diam.), sessile apothecia with brown margins and somewhat pale brown discs, 35 – 50 μm thick proper exciple, 75 – 90 μm thick hymenium, ascospores 8 per ascus, submuriform,...

Agonimia opuntiella is reported for the first time from Yunnan, and also as new for mainland China. A close examination of external morphology and anatomy revealed: (1) the presence of papillae which elongate and adhere to one another becoming spinulose hairs; (2) goniocysts produced on the lower side of the lobes; (3) the thallus is euparaplectenc...