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Graphis Marusae
''Graphis marusae'' is a species of corticolous lichen, corticolous (bark-dwelling) crustose lichen in the family Graphidaceae. It is found in a relict tropical lowland rainforest in Veracruz, Mexico, growing in exposed understory. Taxonomy The lichen-forming fungus was species description, described as new to science in 2011 by the lichenologists Alejandrina Peña and Robert Lücking. The type (biology), type specimen was collected by Bárcenas Peña from the Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve at an elevation of , where it was growing in a lowland rainforest on the bark of ''Astrocaryum mexicanum'' and ''Pseudolmedia oxyphyllaria''. It is characterised by its green thallus, its 1–5 mm-long (elongated and slit-like fruiting bodies) with grey-black labia. Description The thallus of ''Graphis marusae'' reaches up to in diameter with a thickness of 50–100 μm. The surface of the thallus is smooth, shiny, and pale greenish-grey in colour. There is no prothallus#In lichens, prot ... [...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] |