Pleurosticta koflerae
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| Pleurosticta koflerae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Lecanorales |
| Family: | Parmeliaceae |
| Genus: | Pleurosticta |
| Species: | P. koflerae |
| Binomial name | |
| Pleurosticta koflerae | |
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Pleurosticta koflerae is a species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. It is a member of the group of species informally known as the "brown Parmeliae". The lichen was first formally described as Parmelia koflerae by lichenologists Georges Clauzade and Josef Poelt in 1961.[2] Theodore Esslinger transferred it to the genus Melanelia in 1978 when he reorganized the classification of the brown Parmeliae,[3] a continuation of his research on the group published the year before.[4] It was finally transferred to the newly resurrected genus Pleurosticta in 1988 by H. Thorsten Lumbsch and John A. Elix.[5]
Pleurosticta koflerae occurs in Eurasia. It has been reported from France, Russia, Slovakia,[6] Armenia,[7] and Kyrgyzstan.[8]
