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Gabura insignis
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Gabura insignis

Gabura insignis is a small bark-dwelling lichen in the family Arctomiaceae. It was first described in 2010 from the Pacific Northwest of North America, and was moved to the genus Gabura in 2020 after DNA-based studies (molecular phylogenetics) showed it to be closely related to Gabura fascicularis. Unlike its close relative, which produces disc-like fruiting bodies, G. insignis reproduces asexually by releasing powdery particles called soredia (asexual propagules), and sexual fruiting bodies have not been reported, at...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1295154.