''Coppinsidea vainioana'' is a species of

crustose lichen Crustose lichens are lichens that form a crust which strongly adheres to the Substrate (biology), substrate (soil, rock, tree bark, etc.), making separation from the substrate impossible without destruction. The basic structure of crustose lichen ...

in the family

Ramalinaceae The Ramalinaceae are a family of lichenized fungi in the order Lecanorales. The family name is synonymous with the name ''Bacidiaceae''. Species of this family have a widespread distribution. Genera *''Aciculopsora'' *''Adelolecia'' *'' Arthro ...

. It occurs in Europe, where it grows on the bark of

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trees.

Taxonomy

''Coppinsidea vainioana'' was originally published posthumously by Finnish lichenologist

Edvard August Vainio Edvard August Vainio (born Edvard Lang; 5 August 185314 May 1929) was a Finnish lichenology, lichenologist. His early works on the lichens of Lapland (Finland), Lapland, his three-volume monograph on the lichen genus ''Cladonia'', and, in parti ...

in 1934 as ''Lecidea sphaeroidiza'', in the fourth volume of his series ''Lichenographia Fennia''. The type was collected by Vainio in 1882 at

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(Swedish: Mjölö), an island in

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. The lichen, he noted, was growing abundantly on the bark on

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s both on the island and also in nearby areas. The species was transferred to the genus ''

Biatora ''Biatora'' is a genus of lichens in the family Ramalinaceae. First described in 1817,Fries EM, Sandberg A. (1817). ''Lichenum dianome nova''. Lund. the genus consists of crustose and squamulose lichens with green algal photobionts, biatorine ...

'' in 1995. However, Vainio's name is

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, because it has an older, competing

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, '' Lecidea sphaeroidiza'', which was described by

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in 1896. Lichenologists

Sergey Kondratyuk Sergey Yakovlevich Kondratyuk ( uk, Сергій Якович Кондратюк) (born 17 May 1959) is a Ukrainian botanist specialising in lichenology. His research deals with the taxonomy, floristics, ecology and geography of lichens and lic ...

, Edit Farkas, and Laszlo Lőkös circumscribed the genus ''

Coppinsidea ''Coppinsidea'' is a genus of two species of crustose lichens in the family Ramalinaceae. It was circumscribed in 2019 by lichenologists Sergey Kondratyuk, Edit Farkas, and Laszlo Lőkös with ''Coppinsidea sphaerella'' designated as the type ...

'' in 2019, and created a new name for Vainio's lichen when they moved it to the new genus.

References

{{Taxonbar, from= Q105043811 Ramalinaceae Lichen species Lichens of Europe Lichens described in 1934 Taxa named by Sergey Kondratyuk