Pyrenula microcarpa | |
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Growing on the bark of red maple in North Carolina, USA. Scale bar = 0.5 mm | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Eurotiomycetes |
Order: | Pyrenulales |
Family: | Pyrenulaceae |
Genus: | Pyrenula |
Species: | P. microcarpa
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Binomial name | |
Pyrenula microcarpa
Müll.Arg. (1885)
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Pyrenula microcarpa is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Pyrenulaceae. It has a pantropical distribution. [1] The lichen was formally described as a new species in 1885 by Johannes Müller Argoviensis. [2] It has a white to grey-coloured thallus with ascomata measuring up to 0.7 mm in diameter. [1]