Porina duduana
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]
| Porina duduana | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Gyalectales |
| Family: | Trichotheliaceae |
| Genus: | Porina |
| Species: | P. duduana |
| Binomial name | |
| Porina duduana Van den Broeck, Lücking & Ertz (2014) | |
References
- "Porina duduana Van den Broeck, Lücking & Ertz". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
- 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. S2CID 86977679.
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