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speerschneidera lichen
Speerschneidera
Speerschneidera is a single-species fungal genus that contains the saxicolous (rock-dwelling) crustose lichen Speerschneidera euploca. It is known from scattered localities in the south-central United States and Mexico, where it grows on shaded calcareous outcrops. The genus has had an unstable family placement: it was traditionally placed in Leprocaulaceae, but a 2025 multi-gene phylogenetic study recovered it in Catillariaceae and treated Leprocaulaceae as a synonym.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 174890.