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Pseudocyphellaria argyracea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Peltigerales |
Family: | Peltigeraceae |
Genus: | Pseudocyphellaria |
Species: | P. argyracea
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Binomial name | |
Pseudocyphellaria argyracea | |
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Pseudocyphellaria argyracea is a species of foliose lichen in the family Peltigeraceae. It was first scientifically described in 1822 by Dominique François Delise.[2] Edvard Vainio transferred it to the genus Pseudocyphellaria in 1898.
Pseudocyphellaria argyracea has a foliose thallus that ranges from rosette-forming to irregularly spreading. Its upper surface features laminal white soralia and pseudocyphellae, while the pseudocyphellae and lobe margins bear simple to coralloid isidia.[3]
From East Africa to India, Japan, New Zealand, South America, and the Pacific islands, Pseudocyphellaria argyracea has a broad distribution in the Palaeotropics.[3]