Calenia lueckingii is a species of foliicolous (leaf-dwelling) lichen in the family Gomphillaceae. It was formally described as a new species in 1996 by Claudia Hartmann. The type specimen was collected by the author from the edge of Braulio Carrillo National Park (Heredia Province) in Costa Rica; there it was found growing on the leaves of Ardisia in a tropical wet transition rainforest. The species epithet honours German lichenologist Robert Lücking.[1] In 2018, the lichen was recorded from Hainan, China.[2]
| Calenia lueckingii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Graphidales |
| Family: | Gomphillaceae |
| Genus: | Calenia |
| Species: | C. lueckingii
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| Binomial name | |
| Calenia lueckingii C.Hartmann (1996)
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References
edit- ^ Hartmann, Claudia (1996). "Two new foliicolous species of Calenia (lichens, Gomphillaceae) from Costa Rica". Mycotaxon. 59: 483–488.
- ^ Wang, Wei-Cheng; Wei, Jiang-Chun (2018). "Arthonia, Byssoloma, Calenia, Chroodiscus, Coenogonium, Eremothecella, and Semigyalecta spp. new to China". Mycotaxon. 133 (3): 487–497. doi:10.5248/133.487.
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