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Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories
     
Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References
     
     
Graphis virescens Müll.Arg.
     
 

Flora 63: 20 (1880)

T: Apiahy [Apiaí], São Paulo, Brazil, J.I.Puiggari 337; holo: G n.v.

 
     
  Thallus pale greenish fawn or greenish grey, scurfy, minutely cracked. Ascomata black, scattered, conspicuous, sessile, lacking a thalline margin, simple, straight or slightly curved, 0.7–3.5 mm long, 0.2–0.3 mm wide; lips closed or becoming slightly open to expose a weakly white-pruinose epihymenium. Proper exciple completely carbonised. Hymenium 120–140 µm thick, not inspersed. Ascospores 6–8 per ascus, transversely (8–) 10–12-locular, 30–50 × 6–10 µm, I+ blue.
CHEMISTRY: No lichen compounds detected.
     
  An uncommon, corticolous species in south-eastern Qld and north-eastern N.S.W.; also in Costa Rica and Brazil.  
     
   
     
     
  Archer (2009a)  

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