Published November 23, 2018 | Version v1

Allographa leptospora Lucking & Kalb 2018, comb. nov.

  • 1. Lichenological Institute Neumarkt, Im Tal 12, D- 92318 Neumarkt, Germany. Email: saieeuu 10 @ gmail. com
  • 2. Botanic Garden & Botanical Museum, Königin-Luise-Strasse 6 - 8,14195 Berlin, Germany. Email: r. luecking @ bgbm. org
  • 3. Lichenological Institute Neumarkt, Im Tal 12, D- 92318 Neumarkt, Germany. Email: saieeuu 10 @ gmail. com & University of Regensburg, Institute of Plant Sciences, Universitätsstrasse 31, D- 93040 Regensburg, Germany. * Corresponding author-email: klaus. kalb @ arcor. de

Description

Allographa leptospora (Vain.) Lücking & Kalb, comb. nov.

Mycobank MB 827653

Basionym: Graphis leptospora Vainio, Ann. Soc. Zool. Bot. Fenn. ‘Vanamo’ 1: 53 (1921).

Type:— THAILAND. Chiang Mai province: Doi Suthep, ad corticem arboris, 1904, C. C. Hosseus 1875a (TUR-Vainio 27807!, holotype).

Thallus corticolous, whitish to whitish gray or gray, continuous, smooth, glossy. Lirellae erumpent to prominent, with persistent, apically thin thalline margin, elongate, straight, curved or sinuous, unbranched or irregularly branched, labia convergent, finely striate, grayish, disc concealed (acharii -morph). Exciple completely carbonized; hymenium clear; ascospores 8/ascus, hyaline, transversely 29–31-septate, 60–100 × 5–8 μm (protologue), 6–10 μm broad (holotype, Lücking et al. 2009), up to 15-septate, (27–) 40–75 (–100) × (7.2–) 8–9.5 (–11.5) μm (Lepista & Aptroot 2016).

Chemistry: norstictic acid (major) (M. Nakanishi on identification slip attached to the holotye).

Distribution and habitat:— Thailand, Galapagos Islands and Portugal. This is a rare species and until recently, only the type material was known. Lepista & Aptroot (2016) however reported this species from Europe (Portugal). It was not present in our collections.

Remarks:—As in many other species with large ascospores, they are variable in size also in A. leptospora.

Notes

Published as part of Kalb, Jutarat, Lücking, Robert & Kalb, Klaus, 2018, The lichen genera Allographa and Graphis (Ascomycota: Ostropales, Graphidaceae) in Thailand-eleven new species, forty-seven new records and a key to all one hundred and fifteen species so far recorded for the country, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 377 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.377.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13728852

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Lucking & Kalb
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Order
Ostropales
Family
Graphidaceae
Genus
Allographa
Species
leptospora
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Allographa leptospora (Lucking, 2018) sec. Kalb, Lücking & Kalb, 2018

References

  • Lucking, R., Archer, A. W. & Aptroot, A. (2009) A world-wide key to the genus Graphis (Ostropales: Graphidaceae). Lichenologist 41 (4): 363 - 452. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0024282909008305
  • Lepista, Z. & Aptroot, A. (2016) Seven species of Graphis from Portugal reported new to Europe. Lichenologist 48 (4): 259 - 267. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0024282916000153