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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set reviewer(s): Aptroot A. (95-02-18) and Sipman H. (98-01-15); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 10 (A. Aptroot 99-09-27). Cyclographina. Graphidaceae Dumort. (1822); Ostropales.

Taxonomic Literature: Awasthi D.D. & Joshi M., Norwegian J. Bot. 26: 165-177 (1979).

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; trentepohlioid. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Crustose, granular or rimose. Upper Surface: Grey, brownish yellow, olive, or white; special structures absent. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface; special structures absent.

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid, orbicular, linear, or irregular, forming all across the thallus surface, not emerging, becoming adnate to soon sessile. Margin: Prominent; external filaments absent. Exciple: Black or brown. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells brown or brownish yellow. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: Lugol’s negative or Lugol’s positive, not hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched to distinctly branched, not or scarcely anastomosed to distinctly anastomosed. Hypothecium: Black or brown.

Ascospores: 1–2 to c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid or oblong, 80-240 µm long, 18-85 µm wide, obtuse; septa present; both transversally and longitudinally, 20-45-transversally septate, formed by the proper spore wall; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected or present, of the following substance class(es): ß-orcinol depsidones.

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