Biology:Fissurina sporolata

Short description: Species of lichen

Fissurina sporolata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Graphidales
Family:	Graphidaceae
Genus:	Fissurina
Species:	F. sporolata
Binomial name
Fissurina sporolata B.O.Sharma, Khadilkar & Makhija (2012)

Fissurina sporolata is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Found in India, it was formally described as a new species in 2012 by Bharati Sharma, Pradnya Khadilkar, and Urmila Makhija. The type specimen was collected from Hebri (Karnataka), where it was found growing on a roadside tree trunk near a humid deciduous forest. This lichen has a brown, glossy, warty thallus that is finely cracked and rough. The [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|lirellate]] ascomata are [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]] to rarely branched, immersed, the same colour as the thallus, and terminally acute, with a narrow [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]] that lacks [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]]. The [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]] are 8-spored, hyaline, [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]], and ellipsoidal, multilocular, measuring 42–57 by 17–25 μm, with a 5–7 μm-thick halo. The hymenium is clear and hyaline, 225–250 μm high, and the [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]] is hyaline and 20–25 μm high. No lichen products were detected in collected specimens.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q107675406 entry