Vahliella globigera
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| Vahliella globigera | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Peltigerales |
| Family: | Vahliellaceae |
| Genus: | Vahliella |
| Species: | V. globigera |
| Binomial name | |
| Vahliella globigera (Fryday & P.M.Jørg.) P.M.Jørg. (2008) | |
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Vahliella globigera is a species of ground- and moss-dwelling squamulose lichen in the family Vahliellaceae.[3] Found in Alaska, it was described as a new species in 2004 by the lichenologists Alan Fryday and Per Magnus Jørgensen, who classified it in the genus Fuscopannaria; they initially spelled the species epithet as globuligera. The type specimen was collected by Fryday in North Slope Borough, Alaska, on a bank beside a track to the International Tundra Experiment site.[4] Jørgensen transferred it to the new genus Vahliella in 2008. It is the only species in the genus known to contain green algae; the remainder of Vahliella species utilize Nostoc (a cyanobacterium) as a photobiont partner.[5]