Coppinsia is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Trapeliaceae.[1] This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Coppinsia minutissima.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Baeomycetales |
| Family: | Trapeliaceae |
| Genus: | Coppinsia Lumbsch & Heibel (1998) |
| Type species | |
| Coppinsia minutissima Lumbsch & Heibel (1998)
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The genus name of Coppinsia is in honour of Brian John Coppins (b.1949), British botanist (Mycology and Lichenology), who worked in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.[2]
The genus was circumscribed by Helge Thorsten Lumbsch and Esther Heibel in Lichenologist Vol.30 on page 96 in 1998.
References
edit- ^ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, LKT; Dolatabadi, S; 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. hdl:10481/61998.
- ^ 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. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
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