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Southwestern Shortface

Dufourea australis

Classification

Class
Insecta

Dufourea is a genus of mostly foliose lichen species in the subfamily Xanthorioideae of the family Teloschistaceae. Species in the genus are found in the Southern Hemisphere. Taxonomy The genus was originally circumscribed by Swedish lichenologist Erik Acharius in Johann Albert Luyken's 1809 publication Tentamen historiae lichenum, although he did not assign any species to the genus.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 739Mexico · 3