''Claurouxia'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

lichen A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.fungi A fungus ( : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from ...

in the family

Lecanoraceae The Lecanoraceae are a family of lichenized fungi in the order Lecanorales. Species of this family have a widespread distribution. Taxonomy Lecanoraceae was circumscribed by German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber in 1855. Genera According ...

. This is a

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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 Claude Roux is a French lichenologist, mycologist and Esperantist. He has co-authored books about the identification of lichens written in Esperanto. Career Between 1969 and 1975 Roux was employed as a biology and geology teacher in a secondary ...

a French botanist and geologist, who had, together, in 1984 proposed the generic name ''Pseudolecidea'', an invalid

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, for the same species. The genus was

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David Leslie Hawksworth David Leslie Hawksworth (born 1946 in Sheffield, UK) is a British mycologist and lichenologist currently with a professorship in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Madrid, Spain and also a Scientific Associate of The Natural History Muse ...

in Syst. Ascom. Vol. 7 on page 65 in 1988.

References

Lecanoraceae Lichen genera Monotypic Lecanorales genera Taxa described in 1988 Taxa named by David Leslie Hawksworth {{Lecanorales-stub