Protoparmeliopsis sierrae
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| Protoparmeliopsis sierrae | |
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| in Tahoe National Forest, California | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Lecanorales |
| Family: | Lecanoraceae |
| Genus: | Protoparmeliopsis |
| Species: | P. sierrae |
| Binomial name | |
| Protoparmeliopsis sierrae (B.D.Ryan & T.H.Nash) S.Y.Kondr. (2012) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Protoparmeliopsis sierrae is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen found in the western United States.[2] It was first formally described in 1993 by US lichenologists Bruce Douglas Ryan and Thomas Hawkes Nash III.[3] Sergey Kondratyuk transferred the taxon to the genus Protoparmeliopsis in 2012.[4]
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