Biology:Fissurina nicobarensis

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Short description: Species of lichen

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

Fissurina nicobarensis is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) script lichen in the family Graphidaceae.[1] Found in the Nicobar Islands, it was formally described as a new species in 2012 by Bharati Sharma, Pradnya Khadilkar, and Urmila Makhija. The type specimen was collected from a tropical rainforest on Great Nicobar Island; the species epithet refers to the type locality. The lichen has a yellowish-brown thallus, which is warty and glossy and is delimited by a black hypothalloidal region. The lirelline ascomata are branched, 1–10 mm long, semi-emergent, and have a creamish-coloured disc. The ascospores are hyaline, somewhat muriform, and ellipsoid with a thin halo; they have dimensions of 10–15 by 6–7 μm.[2]

References

  1. "Fissurina nicobarensis B.O. Sharma, Khadilkar & Makhija". Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/6J5DP. 
  2. Sharma, B.O.; Khadilkar, P.; Makhija, U. (2012). "New species and new combinations in the lichen genera Fissurina and Hemithecium from India". The Lichenologist 44 (3): 339–362. doi:10.1017/S0024282911000752. 

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