| Astrothelium studerae | |
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Dothideomycetes |
| Order: | Trypetheliales |
| Family: | Trypetheliaceae |
| Genus: | Astrothelium |
| Species: | A. studerae
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| Binomial name | |
| Astrothelium studerae
Aptroot & M.Cáceres (2019)
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Astrothelium studerae is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) lichen in the family Trypetheliaceae. Found in Brazil, it was formally described as a new species in 2019 by lichenologists André Aptroot and Marcela Eugenia da Silva Cáceres. The type specimen was collected by the authors from the Pedra Talhada Biological Reserve ( Quebrangulo, Alagoas) at an altitude between 500 and 700 m (1,600 and 2,300 ft). The specific epithet studerae honours Anita Studer, "the protector of the isolated patch of Atlantic rainforest in Alagoas where the new species was collected". [1]
The lichen has an olive-green to yellowish green thallus that is strongly convex and swollen (bullate), and surrounded by a thin (~0.3 mm wide) black prothallus. It has pear-shaped (pyriform) ascomata, measuring 0.7–1.1 mm in diameter, which aggregate in groups of 2 to 5 that share a common ostiole. The ascospores are hyaline, ellipsoid in shape with three transverse septa, and measure 21.5–23.0 by 6.5–7.5 μm. Astrothelium studerae contains lichexanthone, a lichen product that causes the pseudostromata to fluoresce yellow when lit with a long-wavelength UV light. [1]
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| Astrothelium studerae | |
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Dothideomycetes |
| Order: | Trypetheliales |
| Family: | Trypetheliaceae |
| Genus: | Astrothelium |
| Species: | A. studerae
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| Binomial name | |
| Astrothelium studerae
Aptroot & M.Cáceres (2019)
| |
Astrothelium studerae is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) lichen in the family Trypetheliaceae. Found in Brazil, it was formally described as a new species in 2019 by lichenologists André Aptroot and Marcela Eugenia da Silva Cáceres. The type specimen was collected by the authors from the Pedra Talhada Biological Reserve ( Quebrangulo, Alagoas) at an altitude between 500 and 700 m (1,600 and 2,300 ft). The specific epithet studerae honours Anita Studer, "the protector of the isolated patch of Atlantic rainforest in Alagoas where the new species was collected". [1]
The lichen has an olive-green to yellowish green thallus that is strongly convex and swollen (bullate), and surrounded by a thin (~0.3 mm wide) black prothallus. It has pear-shaped (pyriform) ascomata, measuring 0.7–1.1 mm in diameter, which aggregate in groups of 2 to 5 that share a common ostiole. The ascospores are hyaline, ellipsoid in shape with three transverse septa, and measure 21.5–23.0 by 6.5–7.5 μm. Astrothelium studerae contains lichexanthone, a lichen product that causes the pseudostromata to fluoresce yellow when lit with a long-wavelength UV light. [1]
References
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