Graphis aphaneomicrospora ( Makhija & Adawadkar 2005: 348 ) J. Kalb & Kalb (2017: 145)

Kalb, Jutarat, Lücking, Robert & Kalb, Klaus, 2018, The lichen genera Allographa and Graphis (Ascomycota: Ostropales, Graphidaceae) in Thailand-eleven new species, forty-seven new records and a key to all one hundred and fifteen species so far recorded for the country, Phytotaxa 377 (1), pp. 448-450 : 448-450

Graphis aphaneomicrospora ( Makhija & Adawadkar 2005: 348) J. Kalb & Kalb (2017: 145) .

Type :— INDIA. Andaman Islands , North Andaman , Mayabander Range, Kaichi Nala, in a moist deciduous forest, 30 December 1985, M. B. Nagarkar & P. K. Sethy 85.2757 ( AMH, holotype, not seen) .

Thallus corticolous, grey or whitish to brownish grey, smooth, corticate, dull or slightly glossy. Lirellae immersed to erumpent, with a complete thalline margin and a slit-like disc, long to very long, up to 10 mm long, straight, curved or sinuose, simple or irregularly branched, labia entire ( balaghatensis -morph). Exciple light brownish, not carbonized; ascospores 8/ascus, 7–9-trans-septate, 20–35 × 5–7 μm.

Chemistry: stictic acid (major), constictic acid (minor) (anal. K. Kalb).

Distribution and habitat:—The species is known from the Andaman Islands and Fiji and was reported from Thailand for the first time by J. Kalb & Kalb (2017). It was growing on bark of a deciduous tree in a lowland rainforest along a rivulet in the easternmost province along the Thai coast at 100 m.

Remarks:—This specimen was sequenced and published in Rivas Plata et al. (2012) but not included in the lichen checklist for Thailand ( Buaruang et al. 2017).

Material from Thailand examined:— Trat province: Mueang district; Saphan Hin waterfall near Tumbol Laem Klat , in remnants of a disturbed lowland tropical rainforest, 100 m, 12°06’12’’ N, 102°42’44’’ E, 26 February 2011, K. Kalb et al. 38887 (hb. K. Kalb) .