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Leptogium sphaerosporum

Leptogium sphaerosporum is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), foliose lichen in the family Collemataceae. Found in Nepal, it was formally described as a new species in 2010 by Per Magnus Jørgensen and Louise Olley. The type specimen was collected on the track from Thulo Syabru to Bamboo (Langtang) at an elevation of . Here, in a shady and humid mixed broad-leaved forest, it was found growing on the bark of Alnus nepalensis. It has a bluish-grey, foliose thallus measuring up to wide comprising smooth lobes up to broad. The apothecia are up to in diameter with a flat brown disc and a thallus margin that is pale blue. The ascospores are spheroid, muriform (divided into chambers) with rounded tips and have dimensions of 19–27 by 14–19 ÃŽÂ¼m. Leptogium sphaerosporum is similar to Leptogium pedicellatum, but the latter species is distinguished by its ellipsoid (not spheroid) ascospores that measure 25–30 by 10–15 ÃŽÂ¼m.

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