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Ocellularia brunneospora

Ocellularia brunneospora is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Found in Thailand, it was formally described as a new species in 2002 by lichenologists Natsurang Homchantara and Brian J. Coppins. The type specimen was collected in the Namtok Phlio National Park (Chanthaburi Province); here, in a moist evergreen forest at an elevation of , the lichen was found growing on the bark of Anisoptera costata. Ocellularia brunneospora is only known to occur at the type locality.

The lichen has a smooth and shiny, olive-grey thallus with a dense cortex, a continuous algal layer and a white medulla. Its apothecia are about 0.7 mm in diameter with a white-rimmed, round pore and carbonized (blackened) exciple. The ascospores are ellipsoid, thin walled and brown, and typically measure 11–13 by 6–7 ÃŽÂ¼m. Ocellularia croceospora is similar in morphology, but differs in having colourless ascospores.

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