The lichen genus Schistophoron Stirt. (Ascomycetes, Graphidaceae) in Brazil with a world key to the species Author Torres, Jean Marc Author Spielmann, Adriano Afonso Author Aptroot, André Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Instituto de Biociências, Laboratório de Botânica / Liquenologia, Av. Costa e Silva, s / n, 79070 - 900, Campo Grande, MS (Brazil) adriano. spielmann @ ufms. br (corresponding author) spielmann@ufms.br Author Cardoso, Karen Fernandes Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Alimentos e Nutrição, Laboratório de Produtos Naturais e Espectrometria de Massas, Av. Costa e Silva, s / n, 79070 - 900, Campo Grande, MS (Brazil) Author Honda, Neli Kika Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Instituto de Química, Laboratório de pesquisa 2 (LP 2), Av. Costa e Silva, s / n, 79070 - 900, Campo Grande, MS (Brazil) text Cryptogamie, Mycologie 2020 2020-11-13 20 13 211 217 journal article 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2020v41a13 1776-100X 7814980 Schistophoron muriforme Weerakoon & Aptroot Phytotaxa 280 (2): 158 (2016) . — Type : Sri Lanka . Morningside: on bark of tree, 24.IV.2015 , G. Weerakoon Mo12A (holo-, PD[PD]; iso-, F[F]), fide Weerakoon & Aptroot (2016) . NOTES Schistophoron muriforme has a pale yellowish to white thallus with a diffuse brown prothallus, sessile, elliptical or lirelliform or branched ascomata, globose to ellipsoid, large (15.0-30.0 × 15.0-18.0 Μm) muriform (3-7 × 2-4 septate) ascospores, and contains psoromic acid ( Weerakoon & Aptroot 2016 ). Schistophoron muriforme is the only known species in the genus that produces psoromic acid and has muriform ascospores. Known distribution: Only known from Sri Lanka ( Weerakoon & Aptroot 2016 ). Schistophoron tenue Stirt. Report and Transactions of the Glasgow Society of Field Naturalists 4: 165 (1876) . — Type : West Africa. Bonny River : Grant s.n. , fide Tibell (1996) . SPECIMEN EXAMINED. — Brazil . Mato Grosso Do Sul : Jardim, Camping Seu Assis, 21°25’14.2”S , 56°23’16.7”W , 230 m elev., corticicolous, in riparian forest, Prata river, more or less shaded, 04.VI.2010 . A.A. Spielmann et al. 5368 (CGMS). KNOWN DISTRIBUTION. — Previously reported in Africa from Cameroon [wrongly reported as Nigeria by Tibell (1981) ], Ivory Coast ( Tibell 1981 ) and Nigeria ( Stirton 1876 ), in America from the Galápagos Islands ( Weber 1976 , 1981 , 1986 ; Elix & McCarthy 1998 ), French Guiana , Guatemala ( Tibell 1996 ), Argentina ( Ferraro & Michlig 2011 ), Peru and Venezuela ( Tibell 1982 ), and in Asia from India ( Awasthi 1991 ). It is the first report from Brazil .