Agonimia tenuiloba
| Agonimia tenuiloba | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Eurotiomycetes |
| Order: | Verrucariales |
| Family: | Verrucariaceae |
| Genus: | Agonimia |
| Species: | A. tenuiloba
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| Binomial name | |
| Agonimia tenuiloba Aptroot & M.Cáceres (2013)
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Agonimia tenuiloba is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) lichen in the family Verrucariaceae. Found in Brazil, it was formally described as a new species in 2013 by lichenologists André Aptroot and Marcela Cáceres. The type specimen was collected by the authors in the Estação Ecológica de Cuniã [es] (Rondônia), where it was found growing on smooth tree bark in a rainforest. The lichen thallus comprises tiny, green, fan-shaped (flabellate) lobes (about 0.1 mm wide) and spherical goniocysts (clumps of photobiont cells surrounded by fungal hyphae).[1] Its ascomata are in the form of perithecia that are 0.3–0.4 mm wide and grey in colour due to a thin thalline cover. Its ascospores typically measure 30–50 by 20–35 μm.[2] The European species Agonimia flabelliformis is similar in morphology, but it has shorter and narrower ascospores.[1]
References
[edit ]- ^ a b Aptroot, A.; Cáceres, M.E.S.C. (2013). "Pyrenocarpous lichens (except Trypetheliaceae) in Rondônia". The Lichenologist. 45 (6): 763–785. doi:10.1017/S0024282913000534.
- ^ Breuss, O. (2020). "Key to the species of Agonimia (lichenised Ascomycota, Verrucariaceae)" (PDF). Österreichische Zeitschrift für Pilzkunde. 28: 69–74.
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