Fuscopannaria Cacuminum

''Fuscopannaria'' is a genus of lichen in the family Pannariaceae. It has 55 species.

Taxonomy

The genus was circumscribed by Norwegian lichenologist Per Magnus Jørgensen in 1994, with ''Fuscopannaria leucosticta'' assigned as the type species. Jørgensen had proposed the genus a year earlier, but the genus was not validly published at that time.

''Moelleropsis'' is a genus that was published by Vilmos Kőfaragó-Gyelnik in 1940, with ''Moelleropsis nebulosa'' assigned as its type species. Using molecular phylogenetics, it was later shown that this taxon was nested within ''Fuscopannaria''. Because ''Moelleropsis'' was published earlier than ''Fuscopannaria'', the botanical rules for nomenclature indicated that ''Fuscopannaria'' be folded into synonymy with ''Moelleropsis''. However, this would have meant that several dozen species would have had to change their names, so, in order to preserve "nomenclatural stability", in 2013 Jørgensen and colleagues proposed to conserve the name ''Fuscopannaria'' against ''Moelleropsis''. This proposal was accepted by the Nomenclature Committee for Fungi in 2017.

Species

*'' Fuscopannaria abscondita'' – Svalbard
*'' Fuscopannaria alaskana''
*'' Fuscopannaria albomaculata'' – China
*'' Fuscopannaria aurita''
*'' Fuscopannaria cacuminum'' – Papua New Guinea
*''Fuscopannaria caribaea'' – French Antilles
*''Fuscopannaria cheiroloba''
*''Fuscopannaria coerulescens'' – Nepal; New Guinea
*''Fuscopannaria convexa''
*'' Fuscopannaria coralloidea''
*'' Fuscopannaria crustacea'' – New Zealand
*'' Fuscopannaria cyanogranulosa'' – China
*'' Fuscopannaria cyanolepra''
*'' Fuscopannaria dillmaniae'' – Alaska
*'' Fuscopannaria dispersa''
*'' Fuscopannaria dissecta''
*'' Fuscopannaria frullaniae''
*'' Fuscopannaria granulans'' – New Zealand
*'' Fuscopannaria granulifera'' – India
*'' Fuscopannaria hirsuta'' – China
*'' Fuscopannaria ignobilis''
*'' Fuscopannaria incisa''
*''Fuscopannaria leprosa''
*''Fuscopannaria leucosticta''
*'' Fuscopannaria mediterranea''
*'' Fuscopannaria minor'' – New Zealand
*'' Fuscopannaria nebulosa''
*'' Fuscopannaria obtegens'' – China
*'' Fuscopannaria pacifica''
*'' Fuscopannaria praetermissa''
*'' Fuscopannaria ramulina''
*'' Fuscopannaria rugosa'' – China
*'' Fuscopannaria saltuensis''
*'' Fuscopannaria siamensis''
*'' Fuscopannaria sorediata'' – eastern North America; Japan
*'' Fuscopannaria subgemmascens'' – India
*'' Fuscopannaria subimmixta'' – New Zealand
*'' Fuscopannaria subincisa''
*'' Fuscopannaria thiersii''
*'' Fuscopannaria venusta'' – Papua New Guinea
*'' Fuscopannaria viridescens'' – Siberia; Alaska

References

Peltigerales
Lichen genera
Peltigerales genera
Taxa named by Per Magnus Jørgensen
Taxa described in 1994

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