TYPE. INDIA. West Bengalen, Munneehara. [West Bengal], 1866, W.S. Kurz 166 (H H-NYL 7469).

Description. Life form: lichenized fungus.

Thallus crustose, thin, green; vegetative diaspores absent. Photobiont trentepohlioid alga. Ascomata lirellae, abundant, in crowded clusters, < 2 mm long, immersed, straight or curved, occasionally once-branched with white, crumbling exciple, giving the thallus appearance of a mosaic of green and white patches; disk a slit. Exciple not carbonized; hymenium not inspersed. Asci 2-8-spored; ascopores hyaline, muriform, 35-78 × 18-36 µm.

Chemistry. No substances detected by TLC.

Substrate and Habitat. Corticolous on trees.

Distribution. India, southeastern North America; in North Carolina found in the Coastal Plain ecoregion.

Literature

Harris, R.C. (1995) More Florida Lichens. Including the 10¢ Tour of the Pyrenolichens. Published by the Author, Bronx, N.Y. 192 pp.

Nylander, W. (1869) Lichenes Kurziani Bengalensis. Collectio altera. Flora (Regensburg) 52: 69-73 (original description).