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Fissurina microcarpa
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About
Fissurina microcarpa is a little-known species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) script lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Described in 2012 from specimens collected in the Western Ghats of southern India, this lichen is distinguished by its exceptionally small, cinnamon-brown fruiting structures and unusual spores. Unlike most related species that produce eight spores per reproductive cell, this lichen produces only a single large spore divided into many brick-like compartments. It grows on tree bark in humid hill forests and is known only from two locations in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
- Family
- Graphidaceae
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- Name
- Fissurina microcarpa
- Slug
- fissurina-microcarpa
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Family
- Graphidaceae
- Genus
- Fissurina
- Species
- microcarpa
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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