Acarospora contigua (Acarosporaceae, Ascomycetes), a Lichenized Fungus new to India

Satish Mohabe; Gangadhar Pandava; Anjali Devi B.; A. Madhusudhana Reddy

doi:10.21756/cab.v5i1.1

Satish Mohabe Lichenology Laboratory, Department of Botany, Yogi Vemana University, Vemanapuram, Kadapa-516005, Andhra Pradesh, India
Gangadhar Pandava Lichenology Laboratory, Department of Botany, Yogi Vemana University, Vemanapuram, Kadapa-516005, Andhra Pradesh, India
Anjali Devi B. Lichenology Laboratory, Department of Botany, Yogi Vemana University, Vemanapuram, Kadapa-516005, Andhra Pradesh, India
A. Madhusudhana Reddy Lichenology Laboratory, Department of Botany, Yogi Vemana University, Vemanapuram, Kadapa-516005, Andhra Pradesh, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21756/cab.v5i1.1

Keywords: Acarospora, Acarospora-type ascus, Andhra Pradesh, Eastern Ghats.

Abstract

Acarospora contigua H. Magn., is reported here as new record to India collected from Eastern Ghats of India. It is characterized by bright greenish-yellow, squamulose, non-effigurate, non-placodioid thallus and immersed, indistinctly marginate apothecia, multi-spored asci and simple, ellipsoid to oblong ascospores. All other Indian species within the genus Acarospora has temperate distribution while A. contigua grows in tropical conditions between altitude ranges of 500–1000m. Including A. contigua a total of 14 species of Acarospora are known from India and key for their identification is provided.

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