Department of the Environment and Water Resources home page

About us | Contact us | Publications | What's new

Header imagesHeader imagesHeader images

Australian Biological Resources Study

 
 
Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories
     
Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References
     
     
Acanthothecis silicicola (Redinger) Staiger & Kalb
     
 

Mycotaxon 73: 112 (1999)

Graphis silicicola Redinger, Ark. Bot. 27A(3): 56 (1935).

T: Cerro Negro, Paraguay, G.O.A.Malme 1487; holo: S.

 
     
  Thallus dull fawn, 0.2–0.3 mm thick, somewhat cracked, smooth. Ascomata lirelliform, white, inconspicuous, numerous, straight, curved or sinuous, sometimes branched, initially immersed with closed lips, opening to form a dark slit, the margins becoming slightly raised, 0.8–2.0 (–4.0) mm long, 0.25–0.40 mm wide. Proper exciple lacking. Hymenium 75–100 µm thick. Ascospores 8 per ascus, uniseriate, 4-locular (Australian specimens), narrowly ellipsoidal, 12–14 × 4–5 µm, I–.
CHEMISTRY: Norstictic acid.
     
  A rare, saxicolous species in north-eastern Qld; also in Paraguay and Brazil.  
     
   
     
     
  Archer (2009a)  

Checklist Index
Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References
 
 
Copyright

This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from Australian Biological Resources Study. Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed in the first instance to Dr P. McCarthy. These pages may not be displayed on, or downloaded to, any other server without the express permission of ABRS.


Top | About us | Advanced search | Contact us | Information services | Publications | Site index | What's new