Fissurina sipmanii
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| Fissurina sipmanii | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Graphidales |
| Family: | Graphidaceae |
| Genus: | Fissurina |
| Species: | F. sipmanii |
| Binomial name | |
| Fissurina sipmanii Lücking, B.Moncada & Álvaro (2023) | |
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Fissurina sipmanii is a species of lichen-forming fungus in the family Graphidaceae.[1] It is an olive-green, shiny, bark-dwelling lichen with short, rounded to slightly elongated fruiting bodies whose margins break into irregular lobes with a reddish tinge. The species was described in 2023 from lowland forest in the Colombian Amazon and is named in honour of the lichenologist Harrie Sipman.
Fissurina sipmanii was described as a new species in 2023 by Robert Lücking, Bibiana Moncada, and Wilson Ricardo Álvaro-Alba in a checklist of lichens from the Colombian Amazon. In that work, it was distinguished from Fissurina amazonica by its shorter and broader, slightly gaping fruiting bodies (ascomata) and by having amyloid ascospores. The species epithet sipmanii was chosen to honour Harrie Sipman, who collected the type material in 1988.[2]