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Porina
Sign in to savePorina is a genus of crustose lichens in the family Porinaceae. , Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 161 species of Porina.
Species
Bog Porina
Genus
- PhylumBryozoa
- ClassGymnolaemata
- OrderCheilostomatida
- FamilyPorinidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,836
- With media
- 728
- Family
- Porinaceae
- Collections
- ASU, LSU, DUKE, MEL, WIS, UC
- Recorded in
- MéXico, New Zealand, Malaysia, Australia, Brazil, United States, Costa Rica, Kenya
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Porinaceae
- Image
- Porina exocha (Nyl.) P.M.McCarthy (AM AK327860).jpg
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- Olievlekje
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- Ach
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Porina is a genus of crustose lichens in the family Porinaceae. , Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 161 species of Porina.
==Taxonomy== The genus was circumscribed in 1809 by the Swedish lichenologist Erik Acharius. His of the genus was as follows (translated from Latin): "Apothecium wart-like, formed from the thallus, including several thalamia covered by a very delicate, transparent perithecium, marked above by impressed ostioles; nuclei somewhat globose, containing cellular vesicles. Thallus cartilaginous-membranous, uniform". Acharius included a single species in the genus, Porina pertusa (originally named by Carl Linnaeus in 1767 as Lichen pertusus); this species is now known as Pertusaria pertusa.
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