New species of Graphidaceae (Ostropales, Lecanoromycetes) from southern Thailand

Abstract

Fourteen species of the lichen family Graphidaceae from southern Thailand are described as new, namely Creographa subbrasiliensis, which is similar to C. brasiliensis but without chemistry; Diorygma angusticarpum, which differs from D. hieroglyphicum by a I+ blue hymenium and lirellae with a slit-like disc; D. chumphonense, distinguished by its small, densely muriform ascospores and production of salazinic and norstictic acids; D. citri, distinguished by a I- hymenium and a complex chemistry including salazinic and hypostictic acids as major metabolites; D. conprotocetraricum, which is unique by its chemistry, i.e. conprotocetraric acid as a major substance; D. fuscopruinosum with a brown pruina on the disc of the apothecium and comparatively small ascospores; D. hieroglyphicellum, which is similar to D. hieroglyphicum but differs by much smaller ascospores; D. inexpectatum, which is distinguished by its chemistry (salazinic and hypostictic acids) and a I+ blue hymenium; D. salazinicum, separated from D. pruinosum by its rare chemistry (stictic and salazinic acids as ± major metabolites); D. subpruinosum, distinguished by often 2-spored asci and protocetraric and hypostictic acids as major constituents; D. thailandicum, which is similar to D. pruinosum, but differs by protocetraric and stictic acid as major metabolites; Graphis australosiamensis, distinguished by one muriform ascospore per ascus, a laterally carbonized exciple and norstictic acid in the thallus; Ocellularia palianensis, distinguished by small, transversely septate ascospores and by producing two unknown substances; and Platygramme microspora, which is distinguished by very small transseptate ascospores and producing stictic acid and its satellites.