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Pertusaria guineabissauensis

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Pertusaria guineabissauensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Pertusariales
Family: Pertusariaceae
Genus: Pertusaria
Species:
P. guineabissauensis
Binomial name
Pertusaria guineabissauensis
Paz-Berm., A.W.Archer & Elix (2019)

Pertusaria guineabissauensis is a species of crustose lichen in the family Pertusariaceae. It was described as a new species in 2019 by Graciela Paz-Bermúdez, Alan Archer, and John Elix. It grows on tree bark, producing a thick greenish-grey thallus with a dull, wrinkled surface. The lichen is characterised by the presence of wart-shaped (verruciform) ascomata, asci that contain eight ascospores arranged in a single row (uniseriate) and the presence of the secondary chemicals stictic and hypostictic acids. The specific epithet refers to Guinea-Bissau, where the lichen was discovered, and its only known locality.[1]

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  1. ^ Paz-Bermúdez, Graciela; Archer, Alan W.; Elix, John A. (2019). "A first approach to the lichen flora of Guinea-Bissau". The Bryologist. 122 (1): 151–157. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-122.1.151. S2CID 181474326.