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Astrothelium Flavomeristosporum
''Astrothelium flavomeristosporum'' is a species of corticolous lichen, corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Trypetheliaceae. Found in Ecuador and the Philippines, it was species description, formally described as a new species in 2016 by Dutch lichenologist André Aptroot. The type (biology), type specimen was collected by American botanist Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer, Edward Elmer from Irosin (Sorsogon, Luzon), in 1916. The lichen has a smooth and somewhat shiny, greyish-green thallus with a cortex (botany), cortex surrounded by a thin (0.1 mm wide) black prothallus#In lichens, prothallus line. It covers areas of up to in diameter, and does not induce the formation of galls in the host (biology), host tree. No lichen products were detected in the species using thin-layer chromatography. The main characteristics of the lichen distinguishing it from others in ''Astrothelium'' are its smooth to uneven thallus, its prominent, blackish, and exposed ascomata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Aptroot
André Aptroot (Heemskerk, 1961) is a Dutch mycologist and lichenologist. In 1993 he did his PhD at the University of Utrecht under the supervision of Robbert Gradstein (nl). His dissertation was titled "Systematic studies on pyrenocarpous lichens and related fungi". He specializes in fungi and lichens on which he has several hundreds of publications to his name. He has worked as curator at Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (now Westerdijk Institute). Aptroot is the founder of the Consultancy for Bryology and Lichenology, which is located in Soest where there is a herbarium with a collection of lichens mainly from the Netherlands and the tropics. From 2008 he has been collection manager at Pinetum Blijdenstein (nl) in Hilversum. He is a member of the International Association for Lichenology and the American Bryological and Lichenological Society. He is a visiting professor at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul in Campo Grande, Brazil. Because of Aptroot's bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |