Ancistrosporella

A. australiensis A. curvata A. gracilior A. leucophila A. onchospora Ancistrosporella is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Roccellaceae.

[1] The genus was circumscribed in 1995 by Swedish lichenologist Göran Thor, with Ancistrosporella australiensis assigned as the type species.

[2] The International Union for Conservation of Nature has classified A. leucophila as a Critically Endangered species due to its limited known distribution in South America and the threats to its habitat from deforestation and land-use changes.

[3] As of September 2024[update], Species Fungorum accepts six species of Ancistrosporella:[4] The species A. psoromica, originally described from Venezuela in 2002,[5] was reduced to synonymy with A. leucophila by Damien Ertz in 2018 due to morphological and chemical similarities.

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