Carbacanthographis aptrootii

Carbacanthographis aptrootii is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Found in Yunnan, China, it was formally described as a new species in 2022 by Shirley Cunha Feuerstein and Robert Lücking. The type specimen was collected in Xishuangbanna Primeval Forest Park (Xishuangbanna, Yunnan) at an altitude of 600 m (2,000 ft). It is only known to occur at the type locality. It has a greyish to yellowish grey thallus that lacks both a cortex and a prothallus. It contains norstictic acid, a lichen product that can be detected using thin-layer chromatography. The collector of the type, Dutch lichenologist André Aptroot, is honoured in the specific epithet "for his numerous, important contributions to tropical lichenology".[1]

Carbacanthographis aptrootii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Graphidales
Family: Graphidaceae
Genus: Carbacanthographis
Species:
C. aptrootii
Binomial name
Carbacanthographis aptrootii
Feuerstein & Lücking (2022)

References

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  1. ^ Feuerstein, Shirley Cunha; Lücking, Robert; Borges da Silveira, Rosa Mara (2022). "A worldwide key to species of Carbacanthographis (Graphidaceae), with 17 species new to science". The Lichenologist. 54 (1): 45–70. doi:10.1017/s002428292100044x. S2CID 246828544.