Namibialina

Namibialina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Lecanorales
Family:	Ramalinaceae
Genus:	Namibialina; Spjut & Sérus. (2020)
Species:	N. melanothrix
Binomial name
	Namibialina melanothrix; (Laurer) Spjut & Sérus. (2020)
Synonyms
	Ramalina melanothrix Laurer (1860); Ramalina capensis var. melanothrix (Laurer) Th.Fr. (1861); Desmazieria melanothrix (Laurer) C.W.Dodge (1971); Trichoramalina melanothrix (Laurer) Rundel & Bowler (1974); Niebla melanothrix (Laurer) Kistenich, Timdal, Bendiksby & S.Ekman (2018);

Namibialina is a fungal genus in the family Ramalinaceae.^[2]^[3] It comprises the single species Namibialina melanothrix, a fruticose lichen. The genus is endemic to the coastal deserts of southwestern Africa, from southern Angola to South Africa's Cape of Good Hope, where it grows on rocks, soil, or as an epiphyte on tree bark. It is characterized by its shrubby thallus with branching patterns that often end in blackish or hair-like projections, and by distinctive longitudinal grooves formed by cartilage-like tissue. The genus was circumscribed in 2020 based on molecular phylogenetic evidence showing it diverged from its sister genus Ramalina about 48 million years ago during the early Eocene.

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