Gibbosporina leptospora is a species of foliose lichen in the family Pannariaceae. It was described as a new species in 2016 by Norwegian lichenologist Arve Elvebakk. The specific epithet leptospora, which combines the Greek lepto ("thin") with spore, refers to the thin perispore (outer spore covering).[1] The lichen occurs in northeast Australia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and New Caledonia.[2]
| Gibbosporina leptospora | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Peltigerales |
| Family: | Pannariaceae |
| Genus: | Gibbosporina |
| Species: | G. leptospora
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| Binomial name | |
| Gibbosporina leptospora Elvebakk (2016)
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References
edit- ^ Elvebakk, Arve; Hong, Soon Gyu; Park, Chae Haeng; Robertson, Eli Helene; Jørgensen, Per Magnus (2016). "Gibbosporina, a new genus for foliose and tripartite, Palaeotropic Pannariaceae species previously assigned to Psoroma". The Lichenologist. 48 (1): 13–52. doi:10.1017/S0024282915000328. S2CID 87710883.
- ^ Elvebakk, Arve; Sipman, Harrie J.M. (2020). "Gibbosporina revisited: new records from Fiji, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea and Queensland, with one species from the Solomon Islands transferred to Pannaria". Australasian Lichenology. 87: 52–57.
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