''Ioplaca'' is a
genus
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of
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 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 ...
.
The genus was
circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
in 1977 by Czech lichenologist Josef Poelt with ''
Ioplaca sphalera'' assigned 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
*''
Ioplaca pindarensis''
*''
Ioplaca rinodinoides''
*''
Ioplaca sphalera''
References
Teloschistales
Lichen genera
Teloschistales genera
Taxa described in 1977
Taxa named by Josef Poelt
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