Graphis pyrrhocheiloides Zahlbruckner (1923: 321)

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 pyrrhocheiloides Zahlbruckner (1923: 321) .

Type:— THAILAND. Trat province, tambon Laem Ngop, ad corticem arboris in peninsula Malacca, J. Schmidt 9 (TUR-Vainio 27556!, holotype) .

Thallus corticolous, whitish or off-white, continuous, finely warty or uneven, corticate, dull. Lirellae immersed to erumpent, with a lateral thalline margin, elongate, up to 4 mm long, straight, curved or sinuous, unbranched or irregularly branched, labia divergent, entire, disc exposed, white pruinose, (scripta- morph). Exciple laterally carbonized; hymenium clear; ascospores 4–8/ascus, hyaline, 9–10 (–12)-septate, 32–46 × 6–12 μm ( Awasthi 1991).

Chemistry: norstictic acid (major).

Distribution and habitat:—probably pantropical, reported from U.S. A. Florida ( Seavey et al. 2014), India ( Awasthi 1991 and Devi et al. 2015), Thailand (type locality) and Australia ( Aptroot & Sparrius 2008 –present). It was not present in our collections.

Remarks:—This species was described as Graphis pyrrhocheila by Vainio (1907: 179), nom. illeg., non Mont. & Bosch (1856: 346).