Pyrenula microcarpa
| Pyrenula microcarpa | |
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| Growing on the bark of red maple in North Carolina, USA. Scale bar = 0.5 mm | |
| Scientific classification | |
| 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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Synonymy
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Pyrenula microcarpa is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Pyrenulaceae. It has a pantropical distribution.
Description
Pyrenula microcarpa has a white to grey thallus without a pseudocyphellae, and black ascomata measuring up to 0.7 mm (0.028 in) in diameter.[2][3]
Taxonomy
The lichen was formally described as a new species in 1885 by Johannes Müller Argoviensis.[4]
Distribution
The species is primarily pantropical, mostly found in open coastal areas, but can also be found in montane forest.[2] It is widespread in Australia, and was first recognised in New Zealand in 2015.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "Pyrenula microcarpa". MYCOBANK Database. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
- ^ a b c Marshall, Andrew J.; Blanchon, Dan J.; Aptroot, André; de Lange, Peter J. (16 September 2019). "Five new records of Pyrenula (Pyrenulaceae) for New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Botany. 58 (1): 48–61. doi:10.1080/0028825X.2019.1662816. ISSN 0028-825X. Wikidata Q134497505.
- ^ Aptroot, André (2011). "A world key to the species of Anthracothecium and Pyrenula". The Lichenologist. 44 (1): 5–53 [25]. doi:10.1017/s0024282911000624.
- ^ Müller, J. (1885). "Pyrenocarpeae Cubenses a cl. C. Wright lectae". Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (in Latin). 6: 375–421 [412].