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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Leprocaulales |
| Family: | Leprocaulaceae |
| Genus: | Speerschneidera Trevis. (1861) |
| Species: | S. euploca
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| Speerschneidera euploca | |
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The genus name Speerschneidera honours German doctor, teacher and naturalist Julius Ferdinand Speerschneider (1825–1903). 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
edit- ^ 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. hdl:10481/61998.
- ^ 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. S2CID 86600995.
- ^ Hertel, Hannes (2012). Gattungseponyme bei Flechten und Lichenicolen Pilzen [Generic eponyms in lichens and lichenicolous fungi]. Bibliotheca Lichenologica (in German). Vol. 107. Stuttgart: J. Cramer. p. 104. ISBN 978-3-443-58086-5.
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