Malmographina

Malmographina
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Graphidales
Family: Graphidaceae
Genus: Malmographina
M.Cáceres, Rivas Plata & Lücking (2011)
Species:
M. plicosa
Binomial name
Malmographina plicosa
(C.F.W.Meissn.) M.Cáceres, Rivas Plata & Lücking (2011)
Synonyms
  • Opegrapha plicosa C.F.W.Meissn. (1855)
  • Hemithecium plicosum (C.F.W.Meissn.) Lücking & Aptroot (2008)

Malmographina is a fungal genus in the family Graphidaceae. The genus is monotypic, containing the single species Malmographina plicosa, a script lichen found in South America. Genus Malmographina is characterised by its smooth, olive-green thallus, erumpent to prominent lirellae (fruiting bodies) with orange to cinnabar-red pigment, a clear hymenium, and hyaline, non-amyloid ascospores.