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Pyrenula abditicarpa

Pyrenula abditicarpa is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Pyrenulaceae. Found in Brazil, it is characterised by ascomata that are deeply immersed in the bark beneath the thallus, with distoseptate ascospores measuring 50–55 ÃŽÂ¼m by 23–25 ÃŽÂ¼m. The species was first identified from a specimen collected in the Serra de Itabaiana National Park, Sergipe, Brazil, at an elevation of approximately .

The thallus of Pyrenula abditicarpa is thin, , olive brown, and smooth, closely adhering to the rough bark of trees. It lacks pseudocyphellae and a prothallus. The ascomata are , measuring 0.6–0.8 mm in diameter and 1–2 mm deep, with a wall and a pale brown, depressed ostiole. The is not with oil droplets. The are irregularly , brown, and both and , with rounded . No pycnidia have been observed. Chemically, the thallus does not react to ultraviolet light, and no lichen products were detected using thin-layer chromatography.

Pyrenula abditicarpa is found on smooth bark in undisturbed Atlantic rainforests and is only known from Brazil. This species is notable for its deeply immersed ascomata and mid-sized muriform ascospores, which distinguish it from others within the genus Pyrenula.

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