Biology:Fissurina simplex
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Graphidales |
| Family: | Graphidaceae |
| Genus: | Fissurina |
| Species: | F. simplex
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| Binomial name | |
| Fissurina simplex B.O.Sharma, Khadilkar & Makhija (2012)
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Fissurina simplex is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Graphidaceae.[1] 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 an evergreen forest in Silent Valley National Park (Kerala); it has also been recorded from a humid deciduous forest in Karnataka. The lichen has a brown, glossy, and cracked thallus that is delimited by a black [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|hypothalloidal]] region at its periphery. The ascomata are [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|lirellate]], 0.5–1.5 mm long, [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]], straight (sometimes curved), and the same colour as the thallus. They are immersed to slightly raised, arising as a swelling that then cracks and gapes, and have a terminally acute structure of subcontexta-type. The [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]] are hyaline, [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]], and measure 70–78 by 20–25 μm with a thin halo. Fissurina simplex contains two lichen products: stictic acid and hypostictic acid.[2]
References
- ↑ "Fissurina simplex B.O. Sharma, Khadilkar & Makhija". Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/6J5K9.
- ↑ 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q107675400 entry
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