Carbacanthographis latispora

Carbacanthographis latispora is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Found in Venezuela, it was formally described as a new species in 2022 by Shirley Cunha Feuerstein and Robert Lücking. The type specimen was collected near the savannah of La Esmeralda (Alto Orinoco Municipality Amazonas); here, in the Amazon rainforest, the lichen was found growing on a dead branch. It is only known to occur at the type locality. It has a whitish-grey thallus that lacks both a cortex and a prothallus. Its ascospores typically measure 140–155 by 30–35 μm and have from 13 to 17 transverse septa. The specific epithet refers to its unusually broad ascospores. Stictic acid, cryptostictic acid, and constictic acid are lichen products that occur in this species.[1]

Carbacanthographis latispora
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Graphidales
Family: Graphidaceae
Genus: Carbacanthographis
Species:
C. latispora
Binomial name
Carbacanthographis latispora
Feuerstein & Lücking (2022)

References

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  1. ^ Feuerstein, Shirley Cunha; Lücking, Robert; Borges da Silveira, Rosa Mara (2022). "A worldwide key to species of Carbacanthographis (Graphidaceae), with 17 species new to science". The Lichenologist. 54 (1): 45–70. doi:10.1017/s002428292100044x. S2CID 246828544.