Pyrenula thailandica
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| Pyrenula thailandica | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Eurotiomycetes |
| Order: | Pyrenulales |
| Family: | Pyrenulaceae |
| Genus: | Pyrenula |
| Species: | P. thailandica |
| Binomial name | |
| Pyrenula thailandica Aptroot (2012) | |
 Holotype: Doi Suthep, Thailand | |
Pyrenula thailandica is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) crustose lichen in the family Pyrenulaceae.[1] It is found in Thailand, India, and Papua New Guinea.
The lichen was described as a new species in 2012 by the Dutch lichenologist André Aptroot. The type specimen was collected on Doi Suthep along the transect to Wat Palad (Chiang Mai province, Thailand). It was found in a dry evergreen forest growing on the bark of Xylia xylocarpa at an elevation of 680 m (2,230 ft). The collection was made by Pat Wolseley and Maria Begoña Aguirre-Hudson (collection number 5718) on 26 November 1991. The holotype specimen is preserved at the herbarium of the Natural History Museum, London (BM), with an isotype deposited at Herbarium Bogoriense (ABL) in Indonesia.[2] Aptroot had referred to the species in a publication earlier in the year (a world key to Anthracothecium and Pyrenula) as ined., or unpublished.[3]