''Coppinsidea'' is a

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of two species of

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

s in the family

Ramalinaceae The Ramalinaceae are a family of lichenized fungi in the order Lecanorales. The family name is synonymous with the name ''Bacidiaceae''. Species of this family have a widespread distribution. Genera *'' Aciculopsora'' *''Adelolecia'' *''Arthr ...

. It was

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in 2019 by lichenologists

Sergey Kondratyuk Sergey Yakovlevich Kondratyuk ( uk, Сергій Якович Кондратюк) (born 17 May 1959) is a Ukrainian botanist specialising in lichenology. His research deals with the taxonomy, floristics, ecology and geography of lichens and lic ...

, Edit Farkas, and Laszlo Lőkös with ''Coppinsidea sphaerella'' designated as the

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...

. Species of ''Coppinsidea'' are similar in appearance and

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to '' Thamnolecania'', but differ from them in having a

thallus Thallus (plural: thalli), from Latinized Greek (), meaning "a green shoot" or "twig", is the vegetative tissue of some organisms in diverse groups such as algae, fungi, some liverworts, lichens, and the Myxogastria. Many of these organisms wer ...

that is crustose (rather than

fruticose A fruticose lichen is a form of lichen fungi that is characterized by a coral-like shrubby or bushy growth structure. It is formed from a symbiotic relationship of a photobiont such as green algae or less commonly cyanobacteria and one, two or ...

, mostly convex to almost spherical

apothecia An ascocarp, or ascoma (), is the fruiting body ( sporocarp) of an ascomycete phylum fungus. It consists of very tightly interwoven hyphae and millions of embedded asci, each of which typically contains four to eight ascospores. Ascocarps are mo ...

that are lecideine or biatorine in structure, as well as in being distributed in the

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. The genus is named to honour British lichenologist Brian J. Coppins.

Species

*'' Coppinsidea sphaerella'' *'' Coppinsidea vainioana'' Several species included in the original circumscription of the genus have since been moved to other genera: *''Coppinsidea alba'' ('' Biatora veteranorum'') *''Coppinsidea aphana'' ('' Catillaria aphana'') *''Coppinsidea croatica'' (''

Lecania croatica ''Lecania'' is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Ramalinaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo in 1853. ''Lecania'' is widely distributed, especially in temperate regions, and contains about 64 species. S ...

'') *''Coppinsidea fuscoviridis'' ('' Bacidia fuscoviridis'') *''Coppinsidea pallens'' ('' Biatora pallens'') *''Coppinsidea ropalosporoides'' ('' Gyalidea ropalosporoides'') *''Coppinsidea scotinodes'' ('' Catillaria scotinodes'')

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q105043801 Ramalinaceae Lecanorales genera Lichen genera Taxa described in 2019 Taxa named by Sergey Kondratyuk