Halegrapha chimaera

Halegrapha chimaera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Graphidales
Family: Graphidaceae
Genus: Halegrapha
Species:
H. chimaera
Binomial name
Halegrapha chimaera
Rivas Plata & Lücking (2011)
Holotype: Mount Palali, Philippines

Halegrapha chimaera is a species of script lichen in the family Graphidaceae. It forms a thin, whitish-grey crust on tree bark and produces black, elongated, slit-like fruiting bodies. The species is the type of its genus, Halegrapha, which was named in honour of the American lichenologist Mason Hale. It is known only from lower montane rainforest on Luzon in the Philippines.

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