Speerschneidera

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]

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)

The genus name of Speerschneidera is in honour of (1825–1903), who was a German doctor, teacher and naturalist. He worked as a curator of Frederick Charles, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt's natural history collection which later became the Natural History Museum in Rudolstadt.[5]

References
  1. 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.
  2. Trevisan de St-Léon, V.B.A. (1861). "Über Atestia, eine neue Gattung der Ramalinaceen aus Mittelamerika". Flora (Regensburg) (in German). 44: 452.
  3. Tuckerman, E. (1858). "Supplement to an Enumeration of North American Lichenes". American Journal of Science and Arts. 25: 422–430.
  4. Hafellner, J.; Egan, R.S. (2007). "Studies on the genus Speerschneidera". The Lichenologist. 13 (1): 11–26. doi:10.1017/S0024282981000042.
  5. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.


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