''Licopolia'' is a genus of fungi in the class

Dothideomycetes Dothideomycetes is the largest and most diverse class of ascomycete fungi. It comprises 11 orders 90 families, 1300 genera and over 19,000 known species. Traditionally, most of its members were included in the loculoascomycetes, which is not par ...

. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the class is unknown ('' incertae sedis''). Also, the placement of this genus within the Dothideomycetes is uncertain. The genus name of ''Licopolia'' is in honour of Gaetano Licopoli (1833-1897), who was an Italian botanist. In Naples, he was professor of botany at the University of Naples Federico II and director of the

Botanical Garden of Naples The Botanical Garden of Naples, Italy (in Italian: ''Orto botanico di Napoli'', also ''Real Orto Botanico'') is a research facility of the University of Naples Federico II. The premises take up about 15 hectares and are located in via Foria, adja ...

in 1883. The genus was

circumscribed In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius. Not every polyg ...

by Pier Andrea Saccardo,

Hans Sydow Hans Sydow (29 January 1879 – 6 June 1946) was a German mycologist and the son of mycologist and lichenologist, Paul Sydow (1851–1925). Career Hans Sydow worked at the Dresdner Bank in Berlin between 1904 and 1937 rising to divisional mana ...

and

Paul Sydow Paul Sydow (1 November 1851 in Kallies – 26 February 1925 in Sophienstädt near Ruhlsdorf) was a German mycologist and lichenologist, father of Hans Sydow (1879–1946). He worked as a schoolmaster in Berlin. With his son, Hans, he authored w ...

in Bull. Herb. Boissier ser.2, vol.1 on page 79 in 1900.

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