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Agonimia flabelliformis

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Agonimia flabelliformis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Verrucariales
Family: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Agonimia
Species:
A. flabelliformis
Binomial name
Agonimia flabelliformis
J.P.Halda, Czarnota & Guzow-Krzem. (2011)

Agonimia flabelliformis is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) lichen in the family Verrucariaceae. Found in Europe, it was scientifically described as new to science in 2011 by Josef Halda, Paweł Czarnota, and Beata Guzow-Krzemińska. The type specimen was collected in the Gratzen Mountains (Czech Republic) at an altitude of 805 m (2,641 ft), where it was found growing on the bark of a beech tree. The thallus of the lichen consists of finger-like (dactyliform) to coral-like (coralloid) aggregations of goniocysts (clumps of photobiont cells surrounded by fungal hyphae) that form a roundish structure. The species epithet flabelliformis refers to the fan-shaped (flabellate) form of the thallus branches.[1] In addition to Europe, the lichen has also been recorded in eastern North America and the Russian Far East.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Guzow-Krzeminska, B.; Halda, J.P.; Czarnota, P. (2012). "A new Agonimia with flabelliform thallus from Europe". The Lichenologist. 44 (1): 55–66. doi:10.1017/S0024282911000600.
  2. ^ Breuss, O. (2020). "Key to the species of Agonimia (lichenised Ascomycota, Verrucariaceae)" (PDF). Österreichische Zeitschrift für Pilzkunde. 28: 69–74.