Galapagos Species Database
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Graphis anfractuosa
liquen de escritura, Script lichen
Thallus thin, continuous to rimose, white to whitish gray; surface shiny or dull, not pruinose; Apothecia prominent to sessile, lirellate; lirellae relatively broad and short, rarely ±elongate, not branched, or very sparsely branched; labia thin, entire, shiny black, not covered by thallus and basally without thalline rim (Opegrapha-like); disc concealed, a thin slit; exciple completely carbonized, carbonization extending below the hymenium; hymenium hyaline, inspers, I–; ascospores hyaline, I+ bluish violet, 8 per ascus, narrowly oblong to fusiform, 25-45 x 7-10 µm, transversely septate, 8-11 celled. Chemistry: No substances found; all spot tests negative.
For comparison with the similar G. adpressa see notes there.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Lecanoromycetes
Order
Ostropales
Family
Graphidaceae
Genus
Graphis
Species
anfractuosa
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: A circum-pacific species; at least some previous reports of G. desquamescens from the Galapagos refer to this species (see specimens removed from the Galapagos checklist); mostly on bark of introduced Cinchona pubescens, less frequent on shrubs like Miconia robinsoniana and Zanthoxylum fagara (both
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"Galapagos Species Database, Graphis anfractuosa", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=3963. Accessed 6 May 2025.