Protoblastenia Calva
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''Protoblastenia'' 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 ...
of
lichen 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 ...
s in the family
Psoraceae The Psoraceae are a family of lichenized fungi in the order Lecanorales. The Austrian Botanist and Lichenologist Alexander Zahlbruckner first described the family in 1898. Species of this family have a widespread distribution. Genera This is a ...
. It was originally
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by
Alexander Zahlbruckner Alexander Zahlbruckner (31 May 1860, Svätý Jur – 1938, Vienna) was an Austrian- Hungarian botanist who specialized in the study of lichens. Johann Babtist Zahlbruckner, an earlier Austrian botanist, was his grandfather. From 1878 to 1883 ...
in 1908 as a
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of genus '' Blastenia''. J. Steiner promoted it to generic status in 1911.


Species

*'' Protoblastenia calva'' *'' Protoblastenia calvella'' *'' Protoblastenia cyclospora'' *'' Protoblastenia incrustans'' *'' Protoblastenia laeta'' *'' Protoblastenia lilacina'' *'' Protoblastenia rupestris'' *'' Protoblastenia siebenhaariana''


References

Lecanorales Lichen genera Lecanorales genera Taxa described in 1908 Taxa named by Alexander Zahlbruckner {{Lecanorales-stub