Malmographina

Malmographina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Graphidales
Family: Graphidaceae
Genus: Malmographina
M.Cáceres, Rivas Plata & Lücking (2011)
Species:
M. plicosa
Binomial name
Malmographina plicosa
(C.F.W.Meissn.) M.Cáceres, Rivas Plata & Lücking (2011)
Synonyms[3]
  • Opegrapha plicosa C.F.W.Meissn. (1855)[1]
  • Hemithecium plicosum (C.F.W.Meissn.) Lücking & Aptroot (2008)[2]

Malmographina is a fungal genus in the family Graphidaceae.[4] The genus is monotypic, containing the single species Malmographina plicosa, a script lichen found in South America. Genus Malmographina is characterised by its smooth, olive-green thallus, erumpent to prominent lirellae (fruiting bodies) with orange to cinnabar-red pigment, a clear hymenium, and hyaline, non-amyloid ascospores.

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