''Follmanniella'' is a genus of

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in the family

Roccellaceae The Roccellaceae are a family (biology), family of mostly lichen-forming fungi in the order Arthoniales, established by the French botanist François Fulgis Chevallier in 1826. Species in the family exhibit various lichen growth forms, growth ...

. A

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genus, it contains the single species ''Follmanniella scutellata''. The genus name of ''Follmanniella'' is in honour of Otto Follmann (1856 – 1926), who was a German geologist,

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and educator. The genus was

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by Jörg Peine and Birgit Werner in Flechten Follmann on page 289 in 1995, and then in Biblioth. Lichenol. Vol.107 on page 38 in 2012 (Sekundär-Literatur).

References

Roccellaceae Lichen genera Arthoniomycetes genera Taxa described in 1995 {{Arthoniomycetes-stub