''Brownliella'' is a

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crustose lichen Crustose lichens are lichens that form a crust which strongly adheres to the Substrate (biology), substrate (soil, rock, tree bark, etc.), making separation from the substrate impossible without destruction. The basic structure of crustose lichen ...

s in the subfamily Brownlielloideae of the family

Teloschistaceae The Teloschistaceae are a large family of mostly lichen-forming fungi belonging to the class Lecanoromycetes in the division Ascomycota. The family, estimated to contain over 1800 species, was extensively revised in 2013, including the creation o ...

. It has four species. The genus was

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in 2013 by Sergey Kondratyuk,

Ingvar Kärnefelt Jan Eric Ingvar Kärnefelt (born 1944) is a Swedish lichenologist. Early life and education Kärnefelt was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1944. His initial goal in his higher-level studies at University of Cologne in 1966–1967 was to become ...

, John Elix, Arne Thell, and Jae-Seoun Hur, with the widely distributed lichen '' Brownliella aequata'' assigned as the

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. The genus contains species formerly referred to as the ''Caloplaca cinnabarina'' species group. The generic name honours Australian botanist Sue Brownlie.

Species

*'' Brownliella aequata'' *'' Brownliella cinnabarina'' *'' Brownliella kobeana'' *'' Brownliella montisfracti''

References

Teloschistales Teloschistales genera Taxa described in 2013 Taxa named by John Alan Elix Taxa named by Ingvar Kärnefelt Lichen genera {{Teloschistales-stub