| Alyxoria ochrocheila | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Arthoniomycetes |
| Order: | Arthoniales |
| Family: | Lecanographaceae |
| Genus: | Alyxoria |
| Species: | A. ochrocheila |
| Binomial name | |
| Alyxoria ochrocheila (Nyl.) Ertz & Tehler | |
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Synonymy
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Alyxoria ochrocheila is a species of lichen in the familyLecanographaceae. It has a cosmopolitan distribution, and wasformally described byWilliam Nylander in 1865.
Alyxoria ochrocheila has an effusethallus, lacks a prothallus, and is white to white-grey in colour. It is often mistaken forOpegrapha sp., but can be identified due to having distinct orangepruina that turn purple when spot-tested withpotassium hydroxide.[2]
The species was first described byWilliam Nylander in 1865, under the nameOpegrapha ochrocheila.[3] It was recombined in 2010 and placed in the genusAlyxoria by Damien Ertz and Anders Tehler, based on phylogenetic analysis.[4]
The species is distributed globally, often found in Europe , North America, Africa, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines.[2] It was first identified as occurring in New Zealand in 2016, from a specimen collected from asilver fern trunk inHillsborough Cemetery in Auckland, New Zealand.[2]