Schistophoron muriforme Weerakoon & Aptroot, 2016

Torres, Jean Marc, Spielmann, Adriano Afonso, Aptroot, André, Cardoso, Karen Fernandes & Honda, Neli Kika, 2020, The lichen genus Schistophoron Stirt. (Ascomycetes, Graphidaceae) in Brazil with a world key to the species, Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (13), pp. 211-217 : 214

Schistophoron muriforme Weerakoon & Aptroot

Phytotaxa 280 (2): 158 (2016). — Type: Sri Lanka. Morningside: on bark of tree, 24.IV.2015, G. Weerakoon Mo12A (holo-, PD[PD]; iso-, F[F]), fide Weerakoon & Aptroot (2016).

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Schistophoron muriforme has a pale yellowish to white thallus with a diffuse brown prothallus, sessile, elliptical or lirelliform or branched ascomata, globose to ellipsoid, large (15.0-30.0 × 15.0-18.0 Μm) muriform (3-7 × 2-4 septate) ascospores, and contains psoromic acid ( Weerakoon & Aptroot 2016).

Schistophoron muriforme is the only known species in the genus that produces psoromic acid and has muriform ascospores. Known distribution: Only known from Sri Lanka ( Weerakoon & Aptroot 2016).

Schistophoron tenue Stirt.

Report and Transactions of the Glasgow Society of Field Naturalists 4: 165 (1876). — Type: West Africa. Bonny River: Grant s.n., fide Tibell (1996).

SPECIMEN EXAMINED. — Brazil. Mato Grosso Do Sul: Jardim, Camping Seu Assis, 21°25’14.2”S, 56°23’16.7”W, 230 m elev., corticicolous, in riparian forest, Prata river, more or less shaded, 04.VI.2010. A.A. Spielmann et al. 5368 (CGMS).

KNOWN DISTRIBUTION. — Previously reported in Africa from Cameroon [wrongly reported as Nigeria by Tibell (1981)], Ivory Coast ( Tibell 1981) and Nigeria ( Stirton 1876), in America from the Galápagos Islands ( Weber 1976, 1981, 1986; Elix & McCarthy 1998), French Guiana, Guatemala ( Tibell 1996), Argentina ( Ferraro & Michlig 2011), Peru and Venezuela ( Tibell 1982), and in Asia from India ( Awasthi 1991). It is the first report from Brazil.