Lecanora kohu

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Lecanora kohu
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Lecanoraceae
Genus: Lecanora
Species:
L. kohu
Binomial name
Lecanora kohu
Printzen, Blanchon, Fryday & de Lange (2017)

Lecanora kohu is a species of lichen in the family Lecanoraceae.[1] Found in the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, it was formally described as new to science in 2017.[2]

It is similar in morphology to Lecanora symmicta, from which it is distinguished by the continuous, areolate thallus, immersed apothecia with pale pink to pink-brown discs, and by the presence of atranorin and psoromic acid rather than usnic acid, zeorin and xanthones in the thallus.[2]

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  1. ^ "Lecanora kohu Printzen, Blanchon, Fryday & de Lange". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  2. ^ a b Printzen, C.; Blanchon, D.J.; Fryday, A.M.; de Lange, P.J.; Houston, D. M.; Rolfe, J.R. (2017). "Lecanora kohu, a new species of Lecanora (lichenised Ascomycota: Lecanoraceae) from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Botany. 55 (4): 439–451. doi:10.1080/0028825X.2017.1364274. S2CID 90967923.