Astrothelium flavomeristosporum | |
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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. flavomeristosporum
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Binomial name | |
Astrothelium flavomeristosporum
Aptroot (2016)
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Astrothelium flavomeristosporum is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Trypetheliaceae. [1] Found in Ecuador and the Philippines, it was formally described as a new species in 2016 by Dutch lichenologist André Aptroot. The type specimen was collected by American botanist Edward Elmer from Irosin ( Sorsogon, Luzon), in 1916. The lichen has a smooth and somewhat shiny, greyish-green thallus with a cortex surrounded by a thin (0.1 mm wide) black prothallus line. It covers areas of up to 9 cm (3.5 in) in diameter, and does not induce the formation of galls in the host tree. No lichen products were detected in the species using thin-layer chromatography. [2] The main characteristics of the lichen distinguishing it from others in Astrothelium are its smooth to uneven thallus, its prominent, blackish, and exposed ascomata, [3] and its yellow hamathecium. [2]