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Carbacanthographis megalospora

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

Carbacanthographis megalospora is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Found in Brazil, it was formally described as a new species in 2022 by Shirley Cunha Feuerstein and Robert Lücking. The type specimen was collected by the first author from the Augusto Ruschi Biological Reserve (Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo) at an altitude of 800 m (2,600 ft). The lichen has a whitish grey thallus with a thin cortex and an underlying black prothallus. Its asci contain a single ascospore. These spores are hyaline, and typically measure 235–255 by 30–40 μm. The specific epithet alludes to the large spores, the largest known in genus Carbacanthographis. C. megalospora contains stictic acid, cryptostictic acid, and constictic acid, which are lichen products that can be detected using thin-layer chromatography.[1]

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.