Allographa leptospora is a species of script lichen in the family Graphidaceae. The lichen was first formally described in 1921 by Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio as Graphis leptospora. The type specimen was collected in 1904 by German botanist Carl Curt Hosseus on Doi Suthep (Chiang Mai Province, Thailand), where it was found growing on tree bark. Hosseus sent this and other lichens collected from Thailand to Vainio for identification.[2] Robert Lücking and Klaus Kalb transferred it to the genus Allographa in 2018.[3] In 2016, the lichen was reported from the Sintra Mountains, Portugal, which was its first documented occurrence in Europe.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Graphidales |
| Family: | Graphidaceae |
| Genus: | Allographa |
| Species: | A. leptospora
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| Allographa leptospora | |
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Allographa leptospora has a whitish thallus with thick, striated lirellae. Its ascospores, which have up to 15 septa, typically measure 40–75 by 8.0–9.5 μm.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Synonymy: Allographa leptospora (Vain.) Lücking & Kalb, in Kalb, Lücking & Kalb, Phytotaxa 377(1): 19 (2018)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
- ^ Vainio, E.A. (1921). "Lichenes in summo monte Doi Sutep (circ. 1675 m.s.m.) in Siam boreali anno 1904 a D:re C.C. Hosseo collecti". Annales Botanici Societatis Zoologicae Botanicae Fennicae "Vanamo" (in Latin). 1 (3): 33–55.
- ^ Kalb, Jutarat; Lücking, Robert; Kalb, Klaus (2018). "The lichen genera Allographa and Graphis (Ascomycota: Ostropales, Graphidaceae) in Thailand—eleven new species, forty-seven new records and a key to all one hundred and fifteen species so far recorded for the country". Phytotaxa. 377 (1): 1–88. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.377.1.1.
- ^ a b Lepista, Zacarias; Aptroot, André (2016). "Seven species of Graphis from Portugal reported new to Europe". The Lichenologist. 48 (4): 259–267. doi:10.1017/S0024282916000153.
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