Mazaediothecium uniseptatum

Mazaediothecium uniseptatum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Eurotiomycetes
Order:	Pyrenulales
Family:	Pyrenulaceae
Genus:	Mazaediothecium
Species:	M. uniseptatum
Binomial name
	Mazaediothecium uniseptatum; Aptroot (2015)

Mazaediothecium uniseptatum is a species of calicioid lichen in the family Pyrenulaceae. Found in French Guiana, it was formally described as a new species in 2015 by Dutch lichenologist André Aptroot. The type specimen was collected near the village sentier Limonade in Saül at an altitude of 300 m (980 ft); here, in a mixed forest, the lichen was found growing on the higher trunk of a Protium tree. It has a dull, greyish-white thallus that lacks a cortex and is surrounded by a brown prothallus line. The apothecia are black but covered in their upper half with a golden yellow pruina; they are about 0.2 mm in diameter and up to 0.6 mm high. The asci soon disintegrate to form a mazaedium layer. Ascospores are pale grey with a shape ranging from ellipsoid to spindle-shaped (fusiform), and measure 7.0–12.0 by 5.0–7.5 μm; they contain a single septum. It is this last feature that is referenced in the species epithet uniseptatum.[1]

References

Aptroot, André; Mota Junior, Narla; Santos, Viviane Monique dos; Cáceres, Marcela Eugenia da Silva (2016). "New tropical calicioid lichens from South America". The Lichenologist. 48 (2): 135–139. doi:10.1017/s0024282915000547. S2CID 89860852.

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[Aptroot_et_al._2016-1] Aptroot, André; Mota Junior, Narla; Santos, Viviane Monique dos; Cáceres, Marcela Eugenia da Silva (2016). "New tropical calicioid lichens from South America". The Lichenologist. 48 (2): 135–139. doi:10.1017/s0024282915000547. S2CID 89860852.