Fissurina indica
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| Fissurina indica | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Graphidales |
| Family: | Graphidaceae |
| Genus: | Fissurina |
| Species: | F. indica |
| Binomial name | |
| Fissurina indica B.O.Sharma, Khadilkar & Makhija (2012) | |
Fissurina indica is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) script lichen in the family Graphidaceae.[1] Described in 2012 from specimens collected in India's Western Ghats, this lichen forms pale green to brownish crusts on tree bark in humid evergreen forests. It produces small, slit-like fruiting structures that lack the black carbonised walls typical of many related species, and its ascospores are divided into multiple brick-like compartments. The species has since been found in Assam, suggesting a wider distribution across India's moist hill forests than originally known.
Fissurina indica is a script lichen in the family Graphidaceae. It was described in 2012 by Bharati Sharma, Pradnya Khadilkar and Urmila Makhija on the basis of a specimen gathered in the moist evergreen forest of Wayanad (Kerala, southern India). The holotype came from bark in the Wynad Wildlife Sanctuary, and the specific epithet denotes its Indian origin.[2]
The species was one of nine Fissurina taxa newly introduced in the same treatment; subsequent floristic surveys have confirmed its presence farther north-east in Assam, indicating a wider distribution within the Indian subcontinent than the type locality alone suggests. The original authors placed F. indica among others in the genus that have dumastii-type lirellae (slit-like fruit bodies with acute ends and only weak carbonisation), a character that helps distinguish it from relatives such as F. cingalina and F. dumastii.[2]