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Stenocybe tropica

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Species of lichen

Stenocybe tropica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Mycocaliciales
Family: Mycocaliciaceae
Genus: Stenocybe
Species: S. tropica
Binomial name
Stenocybe tropica
Aptroot (2015)

Stenocybe tropica is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) pin lichen in the family Mycocaliciaceae. Found in Brazil, it was formally described as a new species in 2015 by Dutch lichenologist André Aptroot. The type specimen was collected in Praia de Peruíbe near Itanhaém; here it was found growing on mangrove tree bark. The apothecia are black with a cylindrical to club-shaped head (capitulum) about 0.3 mm in diameter and up to 0.5 mm high. The stalk holding the capitulum is glossy black, up to 0.8 mm tall and about 0.15 mm wide. Its ascospores are dark brown in colour, more or less fusiform (spindle-shaped) with 3 septa, measuring 46–71 by 14–21 μm with mostly pointed tips. No lichen products were detected in the lichen.

References

  1. Aptroot, André; Mota Junior, Narla; Santos, Viviane Monique dos; Cáceres, Marcela Eugenia da Silva (2016). "New tropical calicioid lichens from South America". The Lichenologist. 48 (2): 135–139. doi:10.1017/s0024282915000547. S2CID 89860852.
Taxon identifiers
Stenocybe tropica


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