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Porina duduana

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

Porina duduana is a species of foliicolous lichen belonging to the family Porinaceae.[1] It was discovered in Yangambi, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the leaves of Scaphopetalum thonneri and subsequently described as new to science in 2014.[2] It resembles Porina rufula in appearance but differs in the arrangement of photobiont cells and in having smaller perithecia and smaller ascospores.[2]

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  1. ^ "Porina duduana Van den Broeck, Lücking & Ertz". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b Van den Broeck, Dries; Lücking, Robert; Ertz, Damien (2014). "The foliicolous lichen biota of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the description of six new species". The Lichenologist. 46 (2): 141–158. doi:10.1017/S0024282913000790.