Graphidaceae

Graphidaceae. Dumort.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

Classification: Ostropales, Ostropomycetidae, Lecanoromycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

The family Graphidaceae was introduced by Dumortier (1822). Taxa are lichenized and characterised by a crustose thallus with a Trentepohlia photobiont, ascomata apothecial or perithecial, asci annelasceous, non-amyloid, ascospores ellipsoid to oblong, transversely septate to muriform (Jaklitsch et al. 2016).

Type species: Graphis Adans., Fam. Pl. 2: 11 (1763)

References

Ekanayaka AH, Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Zhao Q, Bulgakov TS 2019 – New and known discolichens from Asia and eastern Europe. Asian Journal of Mycology 2(1), 48–86, Doi 10.5943/ajom/2/1/2