Anisomeridium polypori (Ellis & Everh.) M.E. Barr (1996: 76)

Joshi, Yogesh, Chandra, Krishna & Tripathi, Manish, 2014, A new species of Heterodermia (Ascomycota, Physciaceae) from India, along with a new record and range extension of lichenized fungi in India, Phytotaxa 170 (1), pp. 49-52 : 49-50

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.170.1.7
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5138941
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E121F13E-D110-FFAF-83E1-F89BFB18B20E
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scientific name	Anisomeridium polypori (Ellis & Everh.) M.E. Barr (1996: 76)
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Diagnostic characters: —Thallus inconspicuous, pale greenish-grey, perithecia subconical to ± globose, with scarcely differentiated involucrellum, ascospores3-septate, clavate-fusiform, 14–20 × 4.5–5.0 μm.

Distribution and Ecology:— Cosmopolitan; known from Europe,Africa,America, Australia (including Tasmania) and Asia ( Coppins et al. 2009). Aptroot (1999) mentioned it as a broad niched species colonizing bark, dead wood, dead hepatics, dead polypores and rocks. We report it here as new to India, where it is found growing on plastic sheets in the Central Himalaya.

Remarks:— Morphologically it is similar to A. biforme (Borrer) Harris (1978: 207) , but differs in having 3- septate ascospores, whereas they remain 1-septate in A. biforme .

Specimen examined:— INDIA. Uttarakhand: Almora district, Kosi Katarmal, G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development , on plastic sheet, 25 August 2013, Y. Joshi et al. s.n. ( ALM) .