Topeliopsis

Topeliopsis is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Graphidaceae.

Topeliopsis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Graphidales
Family:	Graphidaceae
Genus:	Topeliopsis Kantvilas & Vězda (2000)
Type species
Topeliopsis muscicola Kantvilas & Vězda (2000)

The genus name of Topeliopsis is in honour of Josef Poelt (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.^[1]

The genus was circumscribed by Gintaras Kantvilas and Antonin Vězda in Lichenologist vol.32 on page 347 in 2000.

Species

• Topeliopsis acutispora Kalb (2001)^[2] – Australia
• Topeliopsis athallina Lumbsch & Mangold (2010)
• Topeliopsis azorica (P.James & Purvis) Coppins & Aptroot (2008)
• Topeliopsis corticola Kalb (2001)^[2] – Australia
• Topeliopsis decorticans (Müll.Arg.) Frisch & Kalb (2006)
• Topeliopsis elixii Frisch & Kalb (2006)
• Topeliopsis globosa Aptroot (2002)
• Topeliopsis guaiquinimae (Sipman) Rivas Plata & Mangold (2010)
• Topeliopsis kantvilasii Mangold & Lumbsch (2009)
• Topeliopsis lomatiae (Messuti, Lumbsch & Vězda) Messuti & Mangold (2010)
• Topeliopsis macrocarpa (C.W.Dodge) Mangold (2009)
• Topeliopsis monospora (Aptroot) Rivas Plata & Lücking (2010)
• Topeliopsis muscigena (Stizenb.) Kalb (2001)^[2] – Australia
• Topeliopsis novae-zelandiae (Szatala) Lumbsch & Mangold (2010)
• Topeliopsis patagonica Mangold & Lumbsch (2010)
• Topeliopsis subdenticulata (Zahlbr.) Frisch & Kalb (2006)
• Topeliopsis subtuberculifera Weerakoon, Jayalal & Lücking (2015)
• Topeliopsis tuberculifera (Vain.) Rivas Plata & Mangold (2010)
• Topeliopsis vezdae Kalb (2001)^[2] – Australia

References

1. 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.
2. Kalb, K. (2001). "The lichen genus Topeliopsis in Australia and remarks on Australian Thelotremataceae". Mycotaxon. 79: 319–328.