Traponora
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| Traponora | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Lecanorales |
| Family: | Lecanoraceae |
| Genus: | Traponora Aptroot (1997) |
| Type species | |
| Traponora asterella Aptroot (1997) | |
| Species | |
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T. asterella | |
Traponora is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Lecanoraceae.[1] The genus was circumscribed in 2009 by Dutch lichenologist André Aptroot, with the Papua New Guinean Traponora asterella assigned as the type, and at that time, only species.[2] Four newly described species were added to the genus in a 2009 publication,[3] a species formerly in Pyrrhospora was transferred to the genus in 2017,[4] and a new species from Australia added in 2018.[5] Traponora lichens are predominantly from Australasia, with all species but one known to occur in Papua New Guinea.[6]