Astrochapsa

Astrochapsa is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the subfamily Graphidoideae of the family Graphidaceae. It has 28 species.^[1] The genus was circumscribed by Sittiporn Parnmen, Robert Lücking, and H. Thorsten Lumbsch in 2012, with Astrochapsa astroidea assigned as the type species. It was segregated from the genus Chapsa, from which it differs in having a more frequently densely corticate thallus, an apothecial margin that is mostly recurved, and the almost exclusively subdistoseptate (with slightly thickened septa and angular lumina), non-amyloid ascospores.^[2]

Astrochapsa
Astrochapsa mirabilis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Graphidales
Family:	Graphidaceae
Genus:	Astrochapsa Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)
Type species
Astrochapsa astroidea (Berk. & Broome) Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)

Species

• Astrochapsa albella Sipman (2014)^[3]
• Astrochapsa alstrupii (Frisch) Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)
• Astrochapsa amazonica (Kalb) Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)
• Astrochapsa astroidea (Berk. & Broome) Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)
• Astrochapsa calathiformis (Vain.) Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)
• Astrochapsa columnaris Sipman (2014)^[3]
• Astrochapsa elongata Poengs. & Lumbsch (2019)
• Astrochapsa fusca Lücking (2014)^[4]
• Astrochapsa graphidioides (Kalb) Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)
• Astrochapsa kalbii Poengs., Lücking & Lumbsch (2014)
• Astrochapsa lassae (Mangold) Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)
• Astrochapsa lobata Lücking (2015)
• Astrochapsa magnifica (Berk. & Broome) Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)
• Astrochapsa martinicensis Ertz & Borgato (2018)
• Astrochapsa mastersonii (Rivas Plata, Lumbsch & Lücking) Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)
• Astrochapsa megaphlyctidioides (Mangold) Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)
• Astrochapsa meridensis (Kalb & Frisch) Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)
• Astrochapsa mirabilis (Zahlbr.) Lücking & S.Joshi (2018)
• Astrochapsa platycarpella (Vain.) Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)
• Astrochapsa pseudophlyctis (Nyl.) Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)
• Astrochapsa pulvereodiscus (Hale) Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)
• Astrochapsa recurva (G.Salisb.) Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)
• Astrochapsa sipmanii Weerakoon & Lücking (2015)
• Astrochapsa stellata (Hale) Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)
• Astrochapsa submuralis E.L.Lima, Lücking & M.Cáceres (2016)
• Astrochapsa verruculosa Papong, Lücking & Parnmen (2015)^[5]
• Astrochapsa waasii (Hale) Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)
• Astrochapsa wolseleyana (Weerakoon, Lumbsch & Lücking) Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)
• Astrochapsa zahlbruckneri (Redinger) Parnmen, Lücking & Lumbsch (2012)

References

1. Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.
2. Parnmen, Sittiporn; Lücking, Robert; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2012). "Phylogenetic classification at generic level in the absence of distinct phylogenetic patterns of phenotypical variation: a case study in Graphidaceae (Ascomycota)". PLOS ONE. 7 (12): e51392. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...751392P. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051392. PMC 3520900. PMID 23251515.
3. Sipman, Harrie J. M. (2014). "New species of Graphidaceae from the Neotropics and Southeast Asia". Phytotaxa. 189 (1): 289–311. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.189.1.21.
4. Lücking, Robert (2014). "Three new species of thelotremoid Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales) from tropical Africa". Phytotaxa. 189 (1): 176–179. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.189.1.12.
5. Papong, Khwanruan Butsatorn; Lücking, Robert; Kraichak, Ekaphan; Parnmen, Sittiporn; Von Konrat, Matt; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2014). "Twenty-three new species in the lichen family Graphidaceae from New Caledonia (Ostropales, Ascomycota)". Phytotaxa. 189 (1): 204–231. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.189.1.15.