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Pyrenula neosandwicensis Aptroot

liquen variceloso, Pox lichen, rash lichen

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Fungi

Phylum
Ascomycota

Class
Eurotiomycetes

Order
Pyrenulales

Family
Pyrenulaceae

Genus
Pyrenula

Species
neosandwicensis

Taxon category: Accepted

F. Bungartz: previously treated as P. aff. duplicans, Syn.: Anthracothecium sandwicense Zahlbr.; not indentical with Pyrenuma sandwicensis Zahlbr., which is a synonym of P. fetivica (Kempelh.) Müll. Arg.

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

References

Aptroot, A. (2013) A world key to the species of Anthracothecium and Pyrenula The Lichenologist 44(1): 5-53

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"Galapagos Species Database, Pyrenula neosandwicensis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=17834. Accessed 3 November 2026.