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Thelenidia
Thelenidia is a fungal genus in the division Ascomycota. It has not been placed into a specific family, order or class, and its relationship to other Ascomycota genera remains uncertain. A monospecific genus, it contains the single species Thelenidia monosporella, a crustose lichen. This unusual lichen is distinguished by the presence of algal cells scattered within its spore-bearing layer, a characteristic that is extremely rare among lichen-forming fungi. It has a disjunct distribution, being known only from calcareous soil in Switzerland and from spray-moistened stones in high-Arctic Greenland.
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Thelenidia is a fungal genus in the division Ascomycota. It has not been placed into a specific family, order or class, and its relationship to other Ascomycota genera remains uncertain. A monospecific genus, it contains the single species Thelenidia monosporella, a crustose lichen. This unusual lichen is distinguished by the presence of algal cells scattered within its spore-bearing layer, a characteristic that is extremely rare among lichen-forming fungi. It has a disjunct distribution, being known only from calcareous soil in Switzerland and from spray-moistened stones in high-Arctic Greenland.
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