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Hypotrachyna oprah<\/em> growing on the bark of a tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dolly Parton<\/a> isn’t the only public figure to have a new species of lichen named after her by NYBG scientists. Following precedent in naming discoveries after incredible American women, we can now add Oprah Winfrey to the list.
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\nA New York Botanical Garden scientist and his colleague have named a new species of lichen that can be identified in part because of its bright glow under ultraviolet light in honor of a media and entertainment figure who has been in the spotlight for four decades, in part because Oprah was born in the region where the lichen is found.<\/p>\n

The new species, Hypotrachyna opra<\/em>h, was discovered in the southeastern United States by James C. Lendemer, Ph.D., an Assistant Curator in the Botanical Garden\u2019s Institute of Systematic Botany, and Jessica L. Allen, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Biology at Eastern Washington University. The region is a biodiversity hotspot, with a high concentration of unique species and ecosystems found nowhere else on Earth. The new species is considered rare and was possibly confused with another lichen species in the past.<\/p>\n

Drs. Lendemer and Allen describe Hypotrachyna oprah<\/em>, which they have given the common name \u201cOprah\u2019s sunshine lichen,\u201d in a paper for Castanea<\/em>, the journal of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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