Gibbosporina thamnophora

Gibbosporina thamnophora is a species of foliose lichen in the family Pannariaceae. It was described as a new species in 2016 by Arve Elvebakk and Per Magnus Jørgensen. The type was collected from Eungella National Park in Queensland, Australia, where it was found growing on bark in a tropical rainforest near Broken River. The specific epithet thamnophora combines the Greek thamnos ("shrub") and -phora ("carrier"), and refers to the finely branched, shrubby cephalodia that are "carried" by the chlorobiont.[1] The lichen occurs in Australia and Papua New Guinea.[2]

Gibbosporina thamnophora
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Peltigerales
Family: Pannariaceae
Genus: Gibbosporina
Species:
G. thamnophora
Binomial name
Gibbosporina thamnophora

References

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  1. ^ Elvebakk, Arve; Hong, Soon Gyu; Park, Chae Haeng; Robertson, Eli Helene; Jørgensen, Per Magnus (2016). "Gibbosporina, a new genus for foliose and tripartite, Palaeotropic Pannariaceae species previously assigned to Psoroma". The Lichenologist. 48 (1): 13–52. doi:10.1017/S0024282915000328.
  2. ^ Elvebakk, Arve; Sipman, Harrie J.M. (2020). "Gibbosporina revisited: new records from Fiji, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea and Queensland, with one species from the Solomon Islands transferred to Pannaria". Australasian Lichenology. 87: 52–57.