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Carbacanthographis Salazinicoides
''Carbacanthographis salazinicoides'' is a species of corticolous lichen, corticolous (bark-dwelling) lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Found in Papua New Guinea, it was species description, formally described as a new species in 2022 by Shirley Cunha Feuerstein and Robert Lücking. The type (biology), type specimen was collected by André Aptroot from a primary montane forest in Myola (Owen Stanley Range, Central Province (Papua New Guinea), Central Province), at an elevation of . It is only known to occur at the type locality (biology), type locality. The botanical name, specific epithet ''salazinicoides'' refers to its resemblance with ''Carbacanthographis salazinica'', from which it differs by having larger ascospores. The lichen has a pale beige to whitish thallus with a thin cortex (botany), cortex and a dark brown prothallus#In lichens, prothallus. It has hyaline ascospores that measure 40–60 by 8 micrometre, μm; these spores are muriform, meaning they are divided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lücking
Robert Lücking (born 1964) is a German lichenologist. He is a leading expert on foliicolous lichens–lichens that live on leaves. Life and career Born in Ulm in 1964, Lücking earned both his master's (1990) and PhD degree (1994) at the University of Ulm. Both degrees concerned the taxonomy, ecology, and biodiversity of foliicolous lichens. His graduate supervisor was mycologist and bryologist Sieghard Winkler, who had previously studied epiphyllous (upper leaf-dwelling) fungi in El Salvador and Colombia. In 1996 Lücking was awarded the Mason E. Hale award for an "outstanding doctoral thesis presented by a candidate on a lichenological theme". His thesis was titled ''Foliikole Flechten und ihre Mikrohabitatpraferenzen in einem tropischen Regenwald in Costa Rica'' ("Foliicolous lichens and their microhabitat preferences in a tropical rainforest in Costa Rica"). In this work, Lücking recorded 177 foliicolous lichen species from the shrub layer in a Costa Rican tropical forest. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |