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Astrothelium flavomaculatum

Astrothelium flavomaculatum is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Trypetheliaceae. Found in Guyana, Venezuela, and Ecuador, it was formally described as a new species in 2016 by Dutch lichenologist André Aptroot. The type specimen was collected by the author from the Cordillera del Cóndor (Morona-Santiago Province, Ecuador) at an altitude of . The lichen has a shiny, smooth to somewhat bullate (convex and swollen) thallus that covers an area of up to in diameter. It is green with a thin orange pruina. Its ascospores are hyaline, ellipsoid in shape, and muriform (i.e. divided into internal chambers by transverse and longitudinal septa), with dimensions of 50–75 by 12–25 ÃŽÂ¼m. It is somewhat similar in appearance to Astrothelium graphicum, but that species has somewhat smaller ascospores with lengths up to 66 ÃŽÂ¼m.

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