Fungalpedia – Note 1792, Pyrrhospora
Pyrrhospora Körb.
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Classification: Lecanoraceae, Lecanorales, Lecanoromycetidae, Lecanoromycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
The genus Pyrrhospora was introduced by Körber (1855). Currently this genus includes around 30 species (Jaklitsch et al. 2016, Wijayawardene et al. 2017). Taxa are widespread and characterised by a crustose thallus, red-orange, red or red-brown apothecia and subglobose to clavate asci and simple hyaline ascospores (Hafellner 1984, 1993).
Type species: Pyrrhospora quernea (Dicks.) Körb., Syst. lich. germ. (Breslau): 209, tab. 1, fig. 7 (1855).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Pyrrhospora.
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