Coniambigua diorygmatis and Distopyrenis graphidis: Two novel lichenicolous fungi on Graphidaceae from India
Two Novel Lichenicolous Fungi on Graphidaceae from India
Keywords:
Lichenicolus Fungi, Coniambigua, Distopyrenis, new species, IndiaAbstract
Two new lichenicolous fungi, Coniambigua diorygmatis and Distopyrenis graphidis, are described from India. Coniambigua diorygmatis is characterized by the black sporodochia producing dark brown, ellipsoidal, non-septate conidia and was found on the thallus of Diorygma junghuhnii, whereas D. graphidis is distinguished by perithecioid ascomata with an apical ostiole, 1-sepate, brown ascospores on Graphis stenotera.
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