Gyrographa is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Roccellaceae.[1] The genus was circumscribed in 2014 by Damien Ernst and Anders Tehler, with Gyrographa gyrocarpa assigned as the type species. This lichen, originally described by Julius von Flotow in 1825, was first placed in the genus Opegrapha. Species in the genus have a crustose thallus lacking a cortex, and a dark brown prothallus. The photobiont partner is trentepholioid. The hypothecium is thick and carbonised, and the ascospores lack a gelatinous sheath; these characteristics distinguish it from Opegrapha species. The genus name alludes to the gyrose ascomata of the type species.[2]
| Gyrographa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Arthoniomycetes |
| Order: | Arthoniales |
| Family: | Roccellaceae |
| Genus: | Gyrographa Ertz & Tehler (2014) |
| Type species | |
| Gyrographa gyrocarpa (Flot.) Ertz & Tehler 2014
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| Species | |
Species edit
- Gyrographa fecunda P.M.McCarthy (2022)[3] – Australia
- Gyrographa gyrocarpa (Flot.) Ertz & Tehler (2014)[2]
- Gyrographa nigrofusca Jagad. Ram (2016)[4] – India
- Gyrographa saxigena (Taylor) Ertz & Tehler (2014)[2]
References edit
- ^ Wijayawardene, N.N.; Hyde, K.D.; Dai, D.Q.; Sánchez-García, M.; Goto, B.T.; Saxena, R.K.; et al. (2022). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa – 2021". Mycosphere. 13 (1): 53–453 [90]. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2. hdl:10481/76378.
- ^ a b c Ertz, Damien; Tehler, Anders; Irestedt, Martin; Frisch, Andreas; Thor, Göran; van den Boom, Pieter (2014). "A large-scale phylogenetic revision of Roccellaceae (Arthoniales) reveals eight new genera". Fungal Diversity. 70 (1): 31–53. doi:10.1007/s13225-014-0286-5. S2CID 256059800.
- ^ McCarthy, P.M. (2022). "Gyrographa fecunda (Roccellaceae), a new saxicolous lichen from New South Wales, Australia". Australasian Lichenology. 91: 56–59.
- ^ Jagadeesh Ram, T.A.M. (2016). "Additional new species in Roccellaceae s.l. from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India". Phytotaxa. 246 (4): 281–286. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.246.4.3.
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