Biology:Pyrenula microcarpa
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Short description: Species of lichen
| Pyrenula microcarpa | |
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| Growing on the bark of red maple in North Carolina, USA. Scale bar = 0.5 mm | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Eurotiomycetes |
| Order: | Pyrenulales |
| Family: | Pyrenulaceae |
| Genus: | Pyrenula |
| Species: | P. microcarpa
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| Binomial name | |
| Pyrenula microcarpa Müll.Arg. (1885)
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Pyrenula microcarpa is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Pyrenulaceae. It has a pantropical distribution.[1] The lichen was formally described as a new species in 1885 by Johannes Müller Argoviensis.[2] It has a white to grey-coloured thallus with ascomata measuring up to 0.7 mm in diameter.[1]
See also
- List of Pyrenula species
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Aptroot, André (2011). "A world key to the species of Anthracothecium and Pyrenula". The Lichenologist 44 (1): 5–53 [25]. doi:10.1017/s0024282911000624. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259417076.
- ↑ Müller, J. (1885). "Pyrenocarpeae Cubenses a cl. C. Wright lectae" (in la). Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 6: 375–421 [412]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/196179.
Wikidata ☰ Q10647420 entry
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