''Propoliopsis'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

lichenized fungi A lichen ( , ) is a hybrid colony (biology), colony of algae or cyanobacteria living symbiotically among hypha, filaments of multiple fungus species, along with yeasts and bacteria embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualism (biology), m ...

in the family

Stictidaceae The Stictidaceae are a family (biology), family of fungi in the order Ostropales. It has 30 genera and about 240 species. Taxonomy The family was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by the Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries in 1849. D ...

. This is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

genus, containing the single species ''Propoliopsis arengae''.

References

Ostropales Lichen genera Ostropales genera Taxa named by Heinrich Rehm Taxa described in 1914 {{Ostropales-stub