Maronella | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | incertae sedis |
Family: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | Maronella M.Steiner (1959) |
Type species | |
Maronella laricina M.Steiner (1959) | |
Species | |
Maronella is a genus of lichens of uncertain familial and ordinal placement in the class Lecanoromycetes. [1] The genus was circumscribed in 1959 by German lichenologist and lichen chemist Maximilian Steiner with Maronella laricina assigned as the type, and at that time, only species. [2] This lichen is rare, having only been recorded from Austria and Spain. [3] M. coreana , known only from type collection in South Korea, was added to the genus in 2015. Both species grow on bark and have a crust-like thallus. [4]