Speerschneidera

Speerschneidera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Leprocaulales
Family:	Leprocaulaceae
Genus:	Speerschneidera; Trevis. (1861)
Species:	S. euploca
Binomial name
	Speerschneidera euploca; (Tuck.) Trevis. (1861)
Synonyms
	Physcia euploca Tuck. (1858); Teloschistes euplocus (Tuck.) Zahlbr. (1908);

Speerschneidera is a single-species genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Leprocaulaceae.^[1] The genus was circumscribed by Italian botanist Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon in 1861, with Speerschneidera euploca as the type species.^[2] This lichen was originally described by Edward Tuckerman in 1858 as Physcia euploca.^[3] It is a crustose lichen found in the southern United States and Mexico.^[4]

References[]

^ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8.
^ Trevisan de St-Léon, V.B.A. (1861). "Über Atestia, eine neue Gattung der Ramalinaceen aus Mittelamerika". Flora (Regensburg) (in German). 44: 452.
^ Tuckerman, E. (1858). "Supplement to an Enumeration of North American Lichenes". American Journal of Science and Arts. 25: 422–430.
^ Hafellner, J.; Egan, R.S. (2007). "Studies on the genus Speerschneidera". The Lichenologist. 13 (1): 11–26. doi:10.1017/S0024282981000042.

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