Speerschneidera | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Leprocaulales |
Family: | Leprocaulaceae |
Genus: | Speerschneidera Trevis. (1861) |
Species: | S. euploca
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Binomial name | |
Speerschneidera euploca | |
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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]
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]