Anzina
Sign in to saveAnzina is a fungal genus of uncertain familial and ordinal classification in the subclass Ostropomycetidae. It is monotypic genus, containing the single crustose lichen species Anzina carneonivea. The lichen occurs mainly in mountainous regions of Europe and western North America, where it grows on the bark of coniferous trees and on decaying organic matter. The genus name honours the Italian botanist Martino Anzi, who first described the species in 1868. The genus was established more than a century later, after microscopic work indicated that the species had a distinctive set of .
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Anzina is a fungal genus of uncertain familial and ordinal classification in the subclass Ostropomycetidae. It is monotypic genus, containing the single crustose lichen species Anzina carneonivea. The lichen occurs mainly in mountainous regions of Europe and western North America, where it grows on the bark of coniferous trees and on decaying organic matter. The genus name honours the Italian botanist Martino Anzi, who first described the species in 1868. The genus was established more than a century later, after microscopic work indicated that the species had a distinctive set of .
==Taxonomy==
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