Polyblastidium squamulosum
Species of lichen
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Polyblastidium squamulosum is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), foliose lichen in the family Physciaceae.[2] It is found in North America.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Caliciales |
| Family: | Physciaceae |
| Genus: | Polyblastidium |
| Species: | P. squamulosum |
| Binomial name | |
| Polyblastidium squamulosum | |
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Taxonomy
The species was first scientifically described by the Swedish lichenologist Gunnar Degelius in 1941, who initially classified it in the genus Anaptychia.[3] William Culberson reclassified it in the genus Heterodermia in 1967.[4] It was transferred to the newly circumscribed genus Polyblastidium in 2015 by Klaus Kalb.[5]
