Fissurina submonospora
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| Fissurina submonospora | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Graphidales |
| Family: | Graphidaceae |
| Genus: | Fissurina |
| Species: | F. submonospora |
| Binomial name | |
| Fissurina submonospora B.O.Sharma, Khadilkar & Makhija (2012) | |
Fissurina submonospora is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Graphidaceae.[1] Described in 2012 from specimens collected in India's Western Ghats, this lichen forms brownish-grey to dark brown crusts on tree bark in moist evergreen forests. It produces large single ascospores divided into brick-like compartments within each reproductive cell, a feature that distinguishes it from most related species which typically contain eight smaller spores.
Fissurina submonospora is a script lichen in the family Graphidaceae. It was described as new to science in 2012 by Bharati Sharma, Pradnya Khadilkar and Urmila Makhija, who designated a holotype collected on 24 January 1983 from Upper Kodayar, Tamil Nadu. The authors placed the species in Fissurina section dumastii because of its immersed, fissure-like fruit bodies (lirellae) and single-spored asci. They noted that it resembles F. monospora but differs in having markedly smaller ascospores and lacking lichen substances in the thallus.[2]