Bacidina mendax
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| Bacidina mendax | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Lecanorales |
| Family: | Ramalinaceae |
| Genus: | Bacidina |
| Species: | B. mendax |
| Binomial name | |
| Bacidina mendax Czarnota & Guz.-Krzem. (2018) | |
Bacidina mendax is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) lichen in the family Ramalinaceae. It is found in Central and Eastern Europe, where it grows on the bark of twigs and tree branches.
Bacidina mendax was formally described as a species new to science in 2018 by Paweł Czarnota and Beata Guzow-Krzemińska. The type specimen was collected by the first author between Lúka village and Tematísky hrad Castle (Považský Inovec, Slovakia) at an elevation of about 230 m (750 ft); there, it was growing on a roadside Acer platanoides tree. The species epithet mendax refers to its similarity with other European members of the genus Bacidina. Collections of this species were stored in several European herbaria, but they had typically been misidentified as morphs of B. caligans, B. neosquamulosa, B. phacodes, or B. delicata.[1]