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Porina gryseelsiana

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Porina gryseelsiana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Gyalectales
Family: Porinaceae
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]

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  1. ^ "Porina gryseelsiana Van den Broeck, Lücking & Ertz". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 28 August 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.