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Strangospora
Sign in to saveStrangospora is a genus of lichen-forming fungi. It is the only genus in the family Strangosporaceae, which itself is of uncertain taxonomic placement in the Ascomycota. It contains 10 species.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassLecanoromycetes
- OrderLecanorales
- FamilyStrangosporaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 83
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Strangosporaceae
- Collections
- NY, UC, UPS, UMFK
- Recorded in
- Ecuador, United States, Sweden, Canada
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Lecanorales
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- taxon name
- Strangospora
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxonomic type
- Strangospora pinicola
- taxon common name
- Muggenstrontjesmos
- taxon author citation
- Körb.
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Strangospora is a genus of lichen-forming fungi. It is the only genus in the family Strangosporaceae, which itself is of uncertain taxonomic placement in the Ascomycota. It contains 10 species.
==Taxonomy== The genus was circumscribed in 1860 by German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber, with Strangospora pinicola assigned as the type species. The family Strangosporaceae was proposed in 2014 by Soili Stenroos, Jolanta Miadlikowska, and François Lutzoni, who used molecular phylogenetics to demonstrate that Strangospora should be removed from the Lecanorales and placed in its own family.
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