''Gibbosporina leptospora'' is a species of

foliose lichen Foliose lichen is one of the morphological classes of lichens, which are complex organisms that arise from the symbiotic relationship between fungi and a photosynthetic partner, typically algae. This partnership allows lichen to live in diverse ...

in the family

Pannariaceae The Pannariaceae are a family of lichens in the order Peltigerales (suborder Collematineae). Species from this family have a widespread distribution, but are especially prevalent in southern temperate regions. Genera According to a recent (202 ...

. It was described as a new species in 2016 by Norwegian lichenologist

Arve Elvebakk Arve Elvebakk (born 1951) is a Norwegian mycologist and professor working from the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø who has published widely on Arctic biology, and climatology. Additionally, he collaborates with many mycologists across ...

. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

''leptospora'', which combines the Greek ''lepto'' ("thin") with spore, refers to the thin perispore (outer spore covering). The lichen occurs in northeast Australia, Papua New Guinea,

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, and

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leptospora ''Leptospora'' is a genus of fungus, fungi in the class Dothideomycetes. It was placed in the Phaeosphaeriaceae family. The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by German botanist and mycologist Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst in 1908, w ...

Lichen species Lichens of Australia Lichens of New Guinea Lichens of Oceania Lichens described in 2016 Taxa named by Arve Elvebakk Lichens of New Caledonia {{Peltigerales-stub