Claurouxia | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Lecanorales |
Family: | Lecanoraceae |
Genus: | Claurouxia D.Hawksw. (1988) |
Type species | |
Claurouxia chalybeioides (Nyl.) D.Hawksw. (1988)
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Claurouxia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Lecanoraceae.[1] This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Claurouxia chalybeioides.
The genus name of Claurouxia is in honour of F.J. Georges Clauzade (1914–2002) a French teacher and botanist (Mycology and Lichenology) and Claude Roux a French botanist and geologist, who had, together, in 1984 proposed the generic name Pseudolecidea, an invalid homonym, for the same species.[2]
The genus was circumscribed by David Leslie Hawksworth in Syst. Ascom. Vol. 7 on page 65 in 1988.