''Fuscopannaria'' is a

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lichen A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.fungi A fungus ( : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from ...

in the family

Pannariaceae The Pannariaceae are a family of lichens in the order Peltigerales (suborder Collematineae). Species from this family have a widespread distribution, but are especially prevalent in southern temperate regions. Genera According to a recent (202 ...

. It has 55 species.

Taxonomy

The genus was

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by Norwegian lichenologist Per Magnus Jørgensen in 1994, with ''

Fuscopannaria leucosticta ''Fuscopannaria'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi 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 ...

'' assigned as the

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. 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 Vilmos Kőfaragó-Gyelnik (March 30, 1906 – March 15, 1945) was a Hungarian botanist and lichenologist. Prior to earning his PhD in 1929 from Budapest University, he spent a year in Cairo to help organize a botanical museum. In 1930 he started ...

in 1940, with ''Moelleropsis nebulosa'' assigned as its type species. Using

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, it was later shown that this

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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

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the name ''Fuscopannaria'' against ''Moelleropsis''. This proposal was accepted by the Nomenclature Committee for Fungi in 2017.

Species

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*'' 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'' –

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*'' Fuscopannaria dispersa'' *'' Fuscopannaria dissecta'' *'' Fuscopannaria frullaniae'' *'' Fuscopannaria granulans'' – New Zealand *'' Fuscopannaria granulifera'' – India *'' Fuscopannaria hirsuta'' – China *'' Fuscopannaria ignobilis'' *'' Fuscopannaria incisa'' *''

Fuscopannaria leprosa ''Fuscopannaria'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi 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 t ...

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References

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