Muellerella pygmaea: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Class
- Eurotiomycetes
- Order
- Verrucariales
- Family
- Verrucariaceae
- Genus
- Muellerella
- Species
- Muellerella pygmaea
- Scientific Name
- Muellerella pygmaea
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Muellerella pygmaea
Muellerella pygmaea is a species of lichenicolous fungus in the family Verrucariaceae. It has a cosmopolitan distribution in Arctic-alpine areas and grows on the thallus and apothecia of a number of hosts.
Host species for Muellerella pygmaea include:
- Acarospora sp.
- Acarospora smaragdula
- Aspicilia calcarea
- Candelariella aurella
- Carbonea assentiens
- Lecanora alpigena
- Lecanora muralis
- Lecanora polytropa
- Lecidea grisella
- Lecidea lapicida
- Lecidea obluridata
- Tephromela atra
- Rhizocarpon geographicum
- Rusavskia elegans
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