Caloplaca beaugleholei

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Caloplaca beaugleholei
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Teloschistales
Family: Teloschistaceae
Genus: Caloplaca
Species:
C. beaugleholei
Binomial name
Caloplaca beaugleholei
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Holotype site: Bermagui, New South Wales[1]

Caloplaca beaugleholei is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae.[2] Found in Australia, it was formally described as a new species in 2009 by lichenologists Sergey Kondratyuk and Ingvar Kärnefelt. The type specimen was collected by the authors on the top of a cliff near Marine Drive by Breakaway Beach (Bermagui, New South Wales); there, in a Eucalyptus forest, it was found growing on the bark of a dying Casuarina plant. The species epithet honours Australian botanist Alexander Clifford Beauglehole, who had this rarely collected species in his extensive collection of botanical specimens. Caloplaca beaugleholei occurs in Western Australia, New South Wales, and Victoria.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Kondratyuk, Sergiy Y.; Kärnefelt, Ingvar; Elix, John A.; Thell, Arne (2009). "New Caloplaca species from Australia". In Aptroot, A.; Seaward, M.R.D.; Sparrius, L.B. (eds.). Biodiversity and Ecology of Lichens – Liber Amicorum Harrie Sipman. Bibliotheca Lichenologica. Vol. 99. Berlin/Stuttgart: J. Cramer. pp. 259–278 [263]. ISBN 978-3-443-58078-0.
  2. ^ "Caloplaca beaugleholei S.Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 22 December 2023.