Biology:Porina gryseelsiana

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Short description: Species of lichen

Porina gryseelsiana
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Gyalectales
Family: Trichotheliaceae
Genus: Porina
Species:
P. gryseelsiana
Binomial name
Porina gryseelsiana
Van den Broeck, Lücking & Ertz (2014)

Porina gryseelsiana is a species of foliicolous lichen belonging to the family Porinaceae.[1] It was discovered in Orientale Province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the leaves of understorey plants in a tropical rainforest. It was subsequently described as new to science in 2014. It is a rare species which is only known from this one collection.[2]

It resembles Porina octomera in appearance but can be differed from it by its orange-brown perithecia and larger spores. The photobiont of this species is the green alga Phycopeltis.[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q108282406 entry