Taxonomical notes on Capronia leopoldiana s.l., Niesslia globispora, Opegrapha foreaui, Scutula miliaris, and Stictographa dirinariicola are provided. foreaui is reported as new to China, Tanzania continental Africa, Xenonectriella physciacearum which the first confirmed report for Asia. Phaeophyscia melanchra host species physciacearum.

Building a thesaurus is very costly and time-consuming task. To alleviate this problem, this paper proposes a new method for extending a thesaurus by adding taxonomic information automatically extracted from an MRD. The proposed method adopts a machine learning algorithm in acquiring rules for identifying a taxonomic relationship to minimize human-intervention. The accuracy of our method in ide...