Endohyalina Gillamsensis
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Endohyalina Gillamsensis
''Endohyalina'' is a genus of 10 species of corticolous lichen, corticolous (bark-dwelling) crustose lichens in the family Caliciaceae. These lichens either form thin, tightly attached crusts on tree bark or live as parasitism, parasites on other lichens, sometimes becoming so reduced that they are nearly invisible to the naked eye. They produce small, black, disc-shaped fruiting bodies that begin buried in the crust and later emerge flush with the surface, containing spores that are divided once by a septum, cross-wall and darken to brown as they mature. Taxonomy The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by the German lichenologist Bernhard Marbach in 2000, with ''Endohyalina rappii'' designated as the type species. Description ''Endohyalina'' species either form a thin, tightly attached crust (a crustose lichen, crustose thallus) on the substrate (biology), substrate or live on other lichens, in which case their own thallus is reduced to the point of being in ...
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