Graphis novopalmicola A.W. Archer & Lücking

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), pp. 448-450 : 448-450

Graphis novopalmicola A.W. Archer & Lücking , in: Lücking et al. (2009: 439).

nom. nov. pro Graphina palmicola Müller Arg. (1887: 402) .

Type:— AUSTRALIA. Queensland: Trinity Bay, Sayer s.n. ( G!, holotype) .

Thallus corticolous, gray to pale green-gray orpale fawn, continuous, smooth to uneven, corticate, dull. Lirellae erumpent, with thick lateral thalline margin, elongate, up to 5 mm long, straight, curved or sinuous, simple or irregularly branched, labia convergent, entire, disc concealed, (subserpentina- morph). Exciple completely carbonized; hymenium strongly inspersed (type A); ascospores 1/ascus, hyaline, densely muriform, with 35–55 transverse septa and 2–10 longitudinal septa, (60–) 85–160 × (16–) 22–45 μm.

Chemistry: norstictic acid (major), ± connorstictic acid (minor).

Distribution and habitat:—Reported from Africa ( Joshi et al. 2016), Australia (type locality) and from Thailand for the first time by Poengsungnoen et al. (2010) from a lower montane scrub in Loei province (Northeast Thailand). As we collected G. novopalmicola in three provinces in South Thailand, it is probably widely distributed in this country. It is growing preferably on various useful trees in plantations from 3 to 40 m elevation.

Remarks:—Archer (2009) put Graphis novopalmicola (as Graphina palmicola ) into synonymy with G. cycasicola (see above), but the latter species has a non-inspersed hymenium.

Material from Thailand examined:— Chumphon province: Tha Sae district, in the area of tambon Tha Sae, in a bottlebrush plantation ( Callistemon lanceolatus ), 20 m, 10°31’25’’ N, 99°02’04’’ E, 7 June 2008, J. Sutjaritturakan 0768, 0766.2, (hb. K. & J. Kalb 42389, 42391); dito, Mueang district, tambon Tak Daet, in the area of Ban Bangpeang, in a coconut plantation ( Cocos nucifera ), 7 m, 10°29’03’’ N, 99°10’32’’ E, 12 December 2007, J. Sutjaritturakan 0034, (hb. K. & J. Kalb 42403); dito, Thung Tako district, tambon Pak Tako, in the area of tambon Pak Tako, in a sapodilla plantaion ( Manilkara zapota ), 20 m, 10°05’48’’ N, 99°08’42’’ E, 6 november 2008, J. Sutjaritturakan 1477, (hb. K. & J. Kalb 42404); dito, Lamae district, in a tree bean plantation ( Parkia timoriana ), 3 m, 9°48’16’’ N, 99°02’14’’ E, 30 August 2008, J. Sutjaritturakan 1253 & R. Nokkhao, (hb. K. & J. Kalb 42408); dito, surroundings of Tham Khao Plu hot springs, on bark of an unidentified tree in a referestation, 4 m, 09°43’27’’ N, 99°06’22’’ E, 31 August 2009, J. Sutjaritturakan 1280 & R. Nokkhao, (hb. K. & J. Kalb 42406)— Songkhla province: Mueang district, tambon Pawong, in the area of Khoyo, in a cottofruit plantation ( Sandoricum koetjape ), 20 m, 07°10’17’’ N, 100°32’44’’ E, 7 October 2009, J. Sutjaritturakan 2510, 2511 & J. Jaraensri, (hb. K. & J. Kalb 42399, 42409); dito, in a sapodilla plantation ( manilkara zapota ), 20 m, 07°10’17’’ N, 100°32’44’’ E, 7 October 2009, J. Sutjaritturakan 2492 & J. Jaraensri, (hb. K. & J. Kalb 42397)— Pattani province: Khok Pho district, in the area of tambon Khuan Nori, in a durian plantation ( Durio zibethinus ), 40 m, 6°37’55’’ N, 101°, 11’0.5’’ E, 11 August 2012, 100°32’44’’ E, 7 October 2009, J. Sutjaritturakan 4785 (hb. K. & J. Kalb 42405).