Porina gryseelsiana is a species of foliicolous lichen belonging to the family Porinaceae.[1] It was discovered in Orientale Province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the leaves of understorey plants in a tropical rainforest. It was subsequently described as new to science in 2014. It is a rare species which is only known from this one collection.[2]
| Porina gryseelsiana | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Gyalectales |
| Family: | Porinaceae |
| Genus: | Porina |
| Species: | P. gryseelsiana
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| Binomial name | |
| Porina gryseelsiana Van den Broeck, Lücking & Ertz (2014)
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It resembles Porina octomera in appearance but can be differed from it by its orange-brown perithecia and larger spores. The photobiont of this species is the green alga Phycopeltis.[2]
See also
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edit- ^ "Porina gryseelsiana Van den Broeck, Lücking & Ertz". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ^ a b Van den Broeck, Dries; Lücking, Robert; Ertz, Damien (2014). "The foliicolous lichen biota of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the description of six new species". The Lichenologist. 46 (2): 141–158. doi:10.1017/S0024282913000790.
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