Opegrapha acarosporae, a new lichenicolous fungus from India
- Author:
- Joshi Y., Bisht S. & Bansal P.
- Year:
- 2025
- Journal:
- Taiwania
- Pages:
- 70: 699–702
- Url:
- DOI: 10.6165/tai.2025.70.699
A new species of lichenicolous fungus from India – Opegrapha acarosporae, colonising the thallus of Acarospora fusca is described from the alpine region of Central Himalaya. The taxon is characterized by warty ascomata bearing 4-spored asci having uniseriately arranged 3-septate hyaline ascospores measuring (15–)18–23(–25) × (5–)7–8(–8.5) µm with a brown granular perispore.
Keyword: Acarospora fusca, Arthoniales, Himalaya, new taxon, Opegrapha pulvinata, Opegraphaceae.
- Id:
- 39265
- Submitter:
- zpalice
- Post_time:
- Friday, 06 February 2026 10:03

