G. asteliae G. darlingtonii G. lamellifera G. lordhowensis G. megalophthalma G. minor G. tasmanica Gintarasia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Graphidaceae.
Gintarasia species are corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichens with a thelotremoid form.
Gintarasia was formally proposed as a new genus in 2013 by Ekaphan Kraichak, Robert Lücking, and Helge Thorsten Lumbsch.
The genus is named in honour of Gintaras Kantvilas, a Tasmanian lichenologist who has made significant contributions to the study of lichenology in Australia, particularly in Tasmania, including the taxonomy of Tasmanian thelotremoid Graphidaceae.
[2] The genus is characterized by a greyish-green to olive-green thallus covered by a cortex or epinecral layer; large chroodiscoid ascomata with exposed discs and thick thalline margins; a fused, hyaline to yellowish proper exciple with lateral paraphyses; a non-inspersed hymenium; hyaline, non-amyloid or amyloid ascospores; and the presence of depsidones of the protocetraric or stictic acid chemosyndrome.