Steinera | |
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Herbarium specimen of Steinera polymorpha, kept at the Auckland War Memorial Museum | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Peltigerales |
Family: | Koerberiaceae |
Genus: |
Steinera Zahlbr. (1906) |
Type species | |
Steinera molybdoplaca (
Nyl.) Zahlbr. (1906)
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Species | |
See text | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Steinera is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Koerberiaceae. [2] It was circumscribed in 1906 by Austrian-Hungarian botanist Alexander Zahlbruckner, who dedicated the genus name to his friend Julius Steiner, an Austrian teacher and lichenologist. [3] The genus was revised by Aino Henssen and Peter Wilfred James in 1982. [4] In 2017, Damien Ernst and Roar Skovlund Poulsen described some new species, and recombined others into the genus based on a study of the genus in the subantarctic islands of Crozet and Kerguelen. [5]
Steinera | |
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Herbarium specimen of Steinera polymorpha, kept at the Auckland War Memorial Museum | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Peltigerales |
Family: | Koerberiaceae |
Genus: |
Steinera Zahlbr. (1906) |
Type species | |
Steinera molybdoplaca (
Nyl.) Zahlbr. (1906)
| |
Species | |
See text | |
Synonyms [1] | |
|
Steinera is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Koerberiaceae. [2] It was circumscribed in 1906 by Austrian-Hungarian botanist Alexander Zahlbruckner, who dedicated the genus name to his friend Julius Steiner, an Austrian teacher and lichenologist. [3] The genus was revised by Aino Henssen and Peter Wilfred James in 1982. [4] In 2017, Damien Ernst and Roar Skovlund Poulsen described some new species, and recombined others into the genus based on a study of the genus in the subantarctic islands of Crozet and Kerguelen. [5]