Josefpoeltia
Genus of lichens / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Josefpoeltia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Teloschistaceae. It has three species.[1] The genus was circumscribed in 1997 by lichenologists Sergey Kondratyuk and Ingvar Kärnefelt, with J. boliviensis assigned as the type species. The genus name honours lichenologist Josef Poelt,[2] (1924-1995) who was a German-Austrian botanist (Bryology, Mycology and Lichenology) and was Professor of Systematic Botany at the Free University of Berlin in 1965.[3]
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Josefpoeltia | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Teloschistales |
Family: | Teloschistaceae |
Genus: | Josefpoeltia S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (1997) |
Type species | |
Josefpoeltia boliviensis S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (1997) | |
Species | |
J. boliviensis |
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