Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor. J. Mycol.)
Santosh Joshi 1,2, Dalip K. Upreti 1, Jae–Seoun Hur 2*
1CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Uttar Pradesh 226001, India
2Korean Lichen Research Institute, Sunchon National University, Suncheon 57922, Korea
Correspondence to jshur1@sunchon.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) December, 2018, 46(4):491-494.
https://doi.org/10.4489/KJM.20180053
Accepted: November 01, 2018; Revised: October 26, 2018; Received: October 08, 2018
Published: December, 2018.
© 2018 THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF MYCOLOGY.
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A new species of Graphis is described from Cameroon, Africa. The new taxon is distinguished by a greyish-green, glossy, uneven, and continuous thallus. Further, it possesses stellately branched lirellae, and its entire labia are covered almost completely with thick thalline margin. It also has a completely carbonized proper exciple, which is considerably thick at the base, one-spored asci, and muriform hyaline to yellowish ascospores.
Crustose, Lichen, Muriform, Mount Oku, Kilum forest