Pyrrhospora Explained

Pyrrhospora is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Lecanoraceae. The genus was circumscribed by German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber in 1855, with Pyrrhospora quernea assigned as the type species.

Species

• Pyrrhospora bhutanensis
• Pyrrhospora chlororphnia
• Pyrrhospora endaurantia
• Pyrrhospora fuscisidiata
• Pyrrhospora luminescens
• Pyrrhospora palmicola – Seychelles
• Pyrrhospora quernea
• Pyrrhospora rubiginans

Several species that were once classified in Pyrrhospora have since been transferred to the genus Ramboldia. These include:

• Pyrrhospora amagiensis (now Ramboldia amagiensis)
• Pyrrhospora arandensis (now Ramboldia arandensis)
• Pyrrhospora aurantiaca (now Ramboldia aurantiaca)
• Pyrrhospora aurea (now Ramboldia aurea)
• Pyrrhospora bullata (now Ramboldia bullata)
• Pyrrhospora cinnabarina (now Ramboldia cinnabarina)
• Pyrrhospora elabens (now Ramboldia elabens)
• Pyrrhospora gowardiana (now Ramboldia gowardiana)
• Pyrrhospora griseococcinea (now Ramboldia griseococcinea)
• Pyrrhospora laeta (now Ramboldia laeta)
• Pyrrhospora lusitanica (now Ramboldia lusitanica)
• Pyrrhospora manipurensis (now Ramboldia manipurensis)
• Pyrrhospora petraeoides (now Ramboldia petraeoides)
• Pyrrhospora russula (now Ramboldia russula)
• Pyrrhospora sanguinolenta (now Ramboldia sanguinolenta)
• Pyrrhospora subcinnabarina (now Ramboldia subcinnabarina)