Vainionora | |
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Vainionora americana | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Lecanorales |
Family: | Lecanoraceae |
Genus: | Vainionora Kalb (1991) |
Type species | |
Vainionora pallidostraminea (Vain.) Kalb (1991)
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Vainionora is a genus of lichen in the family Lecanoraceae.[1] The genus, which was circumscribed in 1991 by German lichenologist Klaus Kalb, honours the Finnish lichenologist Edvard Vainio, who described the type species as Lecanora pallidostraminea in 1890.[2]