Frigidopyrenia

Frigidopyrenia
Scale bar = 0.25 mm
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Collemopsidiales
Family: Xanthopyreniaceae
Genus: Frigidopyrenia
Grube (2005)
Species:
F. bryospila
Binomial name
Frigidopyrenia bryospila
(Nyl.) Grube (2005)
Synonyms
  • Verrucaria bryospila Nyl. (1864)
  • Arthopyrenia bryospila (Nyl.) Arnold (1871)
  • Collemopsidium bryospilum (Nyl.) Coppins (2004)
  • Didymella bryospila (Nyl.) H.Magn. (1937)
  • Pseudosagedia bryospila (Nyl.) Makar. (1977)
  • Pyrenocollema bryospilum (Nyl.) Coppins (1992)
  • Pyrenocollema bryospilum (Nyl.) Coppins & H.F.Fox (2001)
  • Thelidium bryospilum (Nyl.) Blomb. & Forssell (1880)

Frigidopyrenia is a fungal genus in the family Xanthopyreniaceae. It is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Frigidopyrenia bryospila, a subarctic crustose lichen. This lichen was originally described by the Finnish lichenologist William Nylander in 1864 as Verrucaria bryospila. It was shuffled to several genera in its taxonomic history before Martin Grube circumscribed Frigidopyrenia in 2005 to contain it. As of 2017, no molecular sequence data was available for Frigidopyrenia.