''Anzina'' is a

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lichen A lichen ( , ) is a hybrid colony (biology), colony of algae or cyanobacteria living symbiotically among hypha, filaments of multiple fungus species, along with yeasts and bacteria embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualism (biology), m ...

ized

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of uncertain

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and ordinal classification in the subclass

Ostropomycetidae The Ostropomycetidae are a subclass of mostly lichen-forming fungi in the class Lecanoromycetes. It contains nine orders and 37 families. Arctomiaceae is the only family in the Ostropomycetidae that associates with cyanobacteria of the order N ...

. It is a

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genus, containing the single species ''Anzina carneonivea''. This lichen was first described by Italian botanist Martino Anzi in 1868, as ''Gyalolechia carneonivea''. German lichenologist Christoph Scheidegger

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the genus ''Anzina'' in 1982.

References

Lecanoromycetes Lichen genera Monotypic Lecanoromycetes genera Taxa described in 1982 {{Lecanoromycetes-stub