Crespoa
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| Crespoa | |
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| Crespoa crozalsiana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Lecanorales |
| Family: | Parmeliaceae |
| Genus: | Crespoa (D.Hawksw.) Lendemer & B.P.Hodk. (2013) |
| Type species | |
| Crespoa crozalsiana (B.de Lesd. ex Harm.) Lendemer & B.P.Hodk. (2013) | |
| Species | |
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C. carneopruinata | |
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Crespoa is a genus of five species of lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. Species in this genus are characterized by having an upper thallus surface that is wrinkled and reticulately ridged to coarsely foveolate (having small pits or depressions).
Crespoa species have a distinctive thallus structure, with a strongly reticulately ridged and wrinkled upper surface, and medullary stictic and constictic acids, with the exception of C. schelpei, which has medullary protocetraric acid.[1]
Distribution
All of the species in Crespoa have a more or less tropical distribution, although the range of C. carneopruinata also extends into southern France and Italy, while the distribution of the type species C. crozalsiana includes the US and southern Europe.[1] C. scrobicularis has been reported from Oceania and South America, including Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Venezuela.[2]
