Trypetheliopsis boninensis

Trypetheliopsis boninensis is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) crustose lichen in the family Monoblastiaceae. It forms a thin, greenish crust on tree bark and is characterised by small, reddish bumps containing the lichen's spore-producing structures. Originally described in 1937 from the Bonin Islands of Japan, where it was found growing on the Bonin-endemic tree Boninia glabra, the lichen was later recorded from Kyushu in southern Japan. The species served as the type for the genus Trypetheliopsis when Japanese lichenologist Yasuhiko Asahina established it as a new genus of pyrenocarpous lichens.