''Simonyella'' 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 ''Simonyella variegata'' . The genus was

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by Julius Steiner in Denkschr. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss. Math.-Nat. Kl. vol.71: I, on page 96 in 1902. The genus name of ''Simonyella'' is in honour of Oscar Simony (1852–1915), who was an Austrian mathematician and

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. He was Professor of Mathematics and Physics in

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References

Roccellaceae Lichen genera Arthoniomycetes genera Taxa described in 1902 {{Arthoniomycetes-stub