Astrothelium ecuadorense
| Astrothelium ecuadorense | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Dothideomycetes |
| Order: | Trypetheliales |
| Family: | Trypetheliaceae |
| Genus: | Astrothelium |
| Species: | A. ecuadorense
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| Binomial name | |
| Astrothelium ecuadorense Aptroot (2016)
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Astrothelium ecuadorense is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Trypetheliaceae.[1] Found in Ecuador, it was formally described as a new species in 2016 by Dutch lichenologist André Aptroot. The type specimen was collected by Harrie Sipman in the Estacion Cientifico San Francisco in the South Ecuadorian Andes (Zamora-Chinchipe Province); there, it was found in a mountainous rainforest growing on smooth tree bark. The lichen has a smooth and shiny, pale yellowish-green thallus with a cortex but lacking a prothallus, covering areas of up to 10 cm (4 in) in diameter. No lichen products were detected in the collected specimens.[2] The main characteristics of the lichen distinguishing it from others in Astrothelium are the lack of pseudocyphellae on the thallus, and the solitary, exposed, black ascomata.[3] It is also one of the few Astrothelium species with only two spores in its asci.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Astrothelium ecuadorense Aptroot". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
- ^ a b Aptroot, André; Ertz, Damien; Etayo Salazar, Javier Angel; Gueidan, Cécile; Mercado Diaz, Joel Alejandro; Schumm, Felix; Weerakoon, Gothamie (2016). "Forty-six new species of Trypetheliaceae from the tropics". The Lichenologist. 48 (6): 609–638. doi:10.1017/s002428291600013x. S2CID 89128070.609-638&rft.date=2016&rft_id=info:doi/10.1017/s002428291600013x&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:89128070#id-name=S2CID&rft.aulast=Aptroot&rft.aufirst=André&rft.au=Ertz, Damien&rft.au=Etayo Salazar, Javier Angel&rft.au=Gueidan, Cécile&rft.au=Mercado Diaz, Joel Alejandro&rft.au=Schumm, Felix&rft.au=Weerakoon, Gothamie&rft_id=https://doi.org/10.1017%2Fs002428291600013x&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Astrothelium ecuadorense" class="Z3988">
- ^ Aptroot, André; Lücking, Robert (2016). "A revisionary synopsis of the Trypetheliaceae (Ascomycota: Trypetheliales)". The Lichenologist. 48 (6): 763–982. doi:10.1017/s0024282916000487. S2CID 89119724.763-982&rft.date=2016&rft_id=info:doi/10.1017/s0024282916000487&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:89119724#id-name=S2CID&rft.aulast=Aptroot&rft.aufirst=André&rft.au=Lücking, Robert&rft_id=https://doi.org/10.1017%2Fs0024282916000487&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Astrothelium ecuadorense" class="Z3988">
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