| Frigidopyrenia | |
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| Scale bar = 0.25 mm | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Dothideomycetes |
| Order: | Collemopsidiales |
| Family: | Xanthopyreniaceae |
| Genus: | Frigidopyrenia Grube (2005) |
| Species: | F. bryospila |
| Binomial name | |
| Frigidopyrenia bryospila (Nyl.) Grube (2005) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Frigidopyrenia is a fungal genus in the family Xanthopyreniaceae. [2] It is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Frigidopyrenia bryospila, a subarctic crustose lichen. [3] This lichen was originally described by the Finnish lichenologist William Nylander in 1864 as Verrucaria bryospila. [4] It was shuffled to several genera in its taxonomic history before Martin Grube circumscribed Frigidopyrenia in 2005 to contain it. As of 2017, no molecular sequence data was available for Frigidopyrenia. [5]