Porina gryseelsiana
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| Porina gryseelsiana | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Gyalectales |
| Family: | Porinaceae |
| Genus: | Porina |
| Species: | P. gryseelsiana |
| Binomial name | |
| Porina gryseelsiana Van den Broeck, Lücking & Ertz (2014) | |
Porina gryseelsiana is a species of foliicolous lichen belonging to the family Porinaceae.[1] It was discovered in Orientale Province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the leaves of understorey plants in a tropical rainforest. It was subsequently described as new to science in 2014. It is a rare species which is only known from this one collection.[2]
It resembles Porina octomera in appearance but can be differed from it by its orange-brown perithecia and larger spores. The photobiont of this species is the green alga Phycopeltis.[2]
