Pyxine albovirens: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Class
- Lecanoromycetes
- Order
- Caliciales
- Family
- Caliciaceae
- Genus
- Pyxine
- Species
- Pyxine albovirens
- Scientific Name
- Pyxine albovirens
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pyxine albovirens
Pyxine albovirens is a species of foliose lichen in the family Caliciaceae that is found in North America and South America. It was first formally described as a species of Lecidea in 1818 by German botanist Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer. André Aptroot transferred it to the genus Pyxine in 1987.
The lichen has lobes with distinctly round, laminal soralia. It contains lichexanthone, a lichen product that causes the cortex to fluoresce bright yellow when lit with a long-wavelength UV light. A chemical spot test of the medulla with an aqueous solution of potassium hydroxide (i.e., the K test) is partly K− and partly K+ (purplish).
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Pyxine adamesii
- Pyxine africana
- Pyxine albida
- Pyxine albovirens
- Pyxine asiatica
- Pyxine astridiana
- Pyxine australiensis
- Pyxine austroindica
- Pyxine azorea
- Pyxine berteriana
- Pyxine caesiopruinosa
- Pyxine coccifera
- Pyxine cocoes
- Pyxine consocians
- Pyxine coralligera
- Pyxine endochrysoides
- Pyxine eschweileri
- Pyxine keralensis
- Pyxine minuta
- Pyxine nubila
- Pyxine obscurascens
- Pyxine petricola
- Pyxine philippina
- Pyxine pungens
- Pyxine reticulata
- Pyxine retirugella
- Pyxine sorediata
- Pyxine subcinerea














