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Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories
     
Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References
     
     
Graphis lineola Ach.
     
 

Lichenogr. Universalis 264 (1810)

T: West Indies, locality unknown, O.Swartz s.n.; holo: H-ACH 584 n.v., fide Staiger (2002).

 
     
  ThalThallus pale fawn, smooth, dull. Ascomata numerous, crowded, sessile, simple, 0.5–1.0 mm long, 0.2–0.3 mm wide, almost covered by the thalline margin; lips closed. Proper exciple laterally carbonised. Hymenium 100–120 µm thick, inspersed. Ascospores 8 per ascus, transversely 8–10-locular, 24–36 × 7–8 µm, I+ blue.
CHEMISTRY: No lichen compounds detected.
     
  Uncommon on bark in eastern Qld and N.S.W.; also in South America, India, the Philippines and Japan.  
     
   
     
     
  Archer (2009a)  

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