Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory & Lichen Ecology and Bioprospecting Laboratory, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, India.
*Corresponding author. E-mail: gnhariharan@mssrf.res.in
*First three authors contributed equally to this work.
Roccella montagnei Bél emend Awas and R. belangeriana Awas were keyed out as distinct species based on their reproductive strategies. These two species are similar in their morphology and secondary chemistry. The phylogenetic relationship analysis using maximum parsimony method based on ITS sequences of the nuclear ribosomal DNA clustered these two species in a single clade with a bootstrap value of 100 indicating that these two species are the same.
ITS region, species pair, Roccella
