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
Author
Kalb, Jutarat
Lichenological Institute Neumarkt, Im Tal 12, D- 92318 Neumarkt, Germany. Email: saieeuu 10 @ gmail. com
saieeuu10@gmail.com
Author
Lücking, Robert
Botanic Garden & Botanical Museum, Königin-Luise-Strasse 6 - 8,14195 Berlin, Germany. Email: r. luecking @ bgbm. org
r.luecking@bgbm.org
Author
Kalb, Klaus
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
saieeuu10@gmail.com
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Phytotaxa
2018
2018-11-23
377
1
448
450
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.377.1.1
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.377.1.1
1179-3163
Graphis stenotera
Vainio (1921: 243)
.
Type
:—
PHILIPPINES
.
Luzon
:
Benguet
,
Sablang
,
November–December 1910
,
E. Fénix
,
Bureau of Science
12786,
(TUR-Vainio 27887!,
lectotype
, designated by
Archer 2006: 86
)
.
Thallus corticolous or saxicolous, white or ochre-gray, or pale olive green, continuous, smooth, distinctly corticate, glossy. Lirellae erumpent to prominent, lacking a thalline margin, short to elongate, up to
8 mm
long, straight, curved or sinuous, simple or rarely irregularly branched, labia convergent, entire, disc concealed, not visible from above, (
striatula
-morph). Exciple apically to peripherally carbonized; hymenium clear; ascospores 8/ascus, hyaline, transversely 5–10-septate, 20–36 × 5–8 μm (protologue); 6–9-septate, 25–40 × 5–8 μm (
Archer 2006
).
Chemistry: stictic acid (M. Nakanishi, annotation slip attached to
type
).
Distribution and habitat
:—Pantropical, reported from
Costa Rica
,
Taiwan
(as
G. flabellans
) (both
Lücking
et al.
2008
),
India
(
Adawadkar & Makhija 2007
),
Philippines
(
type
locality),
Australia
(Archer 2009) and for the first time from
Thailand
,
Loei Province
from
Poengsungnoen
et al.
(2010)
where it was collected in lower montane scrubs and a dry dipterocarp forest. It was not present in our collections.
Remarks
:—Vainio (1921) compared his new species with
Allographa striatula
, but this species can be distinguished in having a laterally carbonized exciple and longer ascospores (up to 65 μm long), (see above). Great care should be taken to elucidate the chemistry by spot tests alone. Vainio says in the protologue; “Thallus ... KHO non reagens, ...” but TLC of the
type
revealed stictic acid. This phenomen occurs often in species of
Graphidaceae
that chemical results of spot tests do not concur with TLC results and interestingly also vice versa.