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{{Short description|Species of lichen}}
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'''''Leptogium patwardhanii''''' is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) and foliose lichen in the family [[Biology:Collemataceae|Collemataceae]]. Found in India, it was [[Biology:Species description|formally described]] as a new species in 2010 by Archana Dube and Urmila Vasudev Makhija. The [[Biology:Type|type specimen]] was collected in an evergreen forest in Amboli (Maharashtra) at an elevation of {{convert|690|m|ft|abbr=on}}. It is only known to occur at the type locality.<ref name="Dube & Makhija 2010"/>

Characteristics of ''Leptogium patwardhanii'' include the presence of isidia and the multilayered [[Biology:Cortex (botany)|cortex]] of the thalline exciple. Its [[Biology:Ascospore|ascospore]]s are muriform (divided into internal chambers by a single vertical [[Biology:Septum|septum]] and 3 to 5 transverse septa), [[Ellipsoid|ellipsoid]], and measure 20–40 by 11–13&nbsp;[[Micrometre|μm]]. It is classified in the [[Biology:Section (botany)|section]] ''Euleptogium'' of the genus ''[[Biology:Leptogium|Leptogium]]''. ''Leptogium austroamericanum'' and ''L.&nbsp;cyanescens'' are similar in overall [[Biology:Morphology|morphology]], but can be distinguished from ''L.&nbsp;patwardhanii'' by differences in the structure of their proper exciples (the rim of tissue around the apothecia).<ref name="Dube & Makhija 2010"/>

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<ref name="Dube & Makhija 2010">{{cite journal |last=Dube |first=Archana |last2=Makhija |first2=Urmila |title=Occurrence of four additional non-hairy species of ''Leptogium'' from Maharashtra, India |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=42 |issue=6 |year=2010 |doi=10.1017/s0024282910000332 |pages=701–710}}</ref>

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[[Category:Lichen species]]



{{Sourceattribution|Leptogium patwardhanii}}