| Loxospora | |
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| Loxospora ochrophaea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Sarrameanales |
| Family: | Sarrameanaceae |
| Genus: | Loxospora A.Massal. (1852) |
| Type species | |
| Loxospora elatina (Ach.) A.Massal. (1852)
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Loxospora is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Sarrameanaceae. It has 13 species.[1] The genus was circumscribed by Italian lichenologist Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo in 1852, with Loxospora elatina assigned as the type species.[2] This crustose lichen was originally named Lecanora elatina by Erik Acharius in 1810.