Sionara Eliasaro

Parmotrema lichexanthonicum is a species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. Found in Brazil, it was formally described as a new species in 1997 by Sionara Eliasaro and Mónica Adler. The type specimen was collected by the first author from the Serra do Cipó (Santana do Riacho, Minas Gerais); here the lichen was found growing on a rock. The specific epithet lichexanthonicum refers to the presence of the secondary compound lichexanthone in the medulla of the lichen. Other compounds in the lichen are the depsidone salazinic acid (found in the medulla), and the depside atranorin (found

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Graphis lueckingii is a species of script lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Found in southern Brazil, it was fornally described as a new species in 2010 by Manuela Dal-Forno and Sionara Eliasaro. The type specimen was collected by the first author in the Pontal do Paraná, where it was found growing on bark in a forest restinga. The species epithet honours lichenologist Robert Lücking. Graphis lueckingii can be identified by its sorediate thallus, prominent lirellae featuring thin and complete thalline margins, a distinct clear hymenium, completely carbonized excipulum, small ascospores that

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Cladonia litoralis is a species of fruticose lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. It was described in 2011 from the Atlantic coast of Santa Catarina State in southern Brazil. There it forms dense, convex cushions of overlapping squamules (scale-like lobes) on exposed granitic coastal rocks. It has yellowish-green, glossy squamules; small podetia with closed branch angles (axils); frequent brown pycnidia; and only one detected secondary metabolite, fumarprotocetraric acid.

Acanthothecis kalbii is a species of script lichen in the family Graphidaceae. It was described as a new species in 2009 by Manuela Dal-Forno and Sionara Eliasaro. The type specimen was collected from Pontal do Sul in Pontal do Paraná, Brazil. The specific epithet honours German lichenologist Klaus Kalb.

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Cora campestris is a species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae. It was formally described as a new species in 2016 by Manuela Dal Forno, Sionara Eliasaro, and Adriano Afonso Spielmann. The specific epithet campestris refers to its habitat in the high-altitude fields (campos de altitude) of southeastern Brazil, where it grows on exposed rock outcrops. It forms rosettes up to 8 cm across with dark olive-grey lobes that have light grey rolled-in edges and orange-brown reproductive patches arranged in a net-like pattern on the underside.

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Diorygma incantatum is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) crustose lichen in the family Graphidaceae. It is found in northern and southern Brazil.

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