''Steinera'' is a
genus
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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 ...
-forming
fungi
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in the family
Koerberiaceae
Koerberiaceae is a small family (biology), family of lichen-forming fungi in the order Peltigerales. It contains 3 genus, genera and 9 species. The family was proposed by Toby Spribille and Lucia Muggia in 2012, after molecular phylogenetic analy ...
.
It was
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* Circum ...
in 1906 by Austrian-Hungarian botanist
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 ...
, who dedicated the genus name to his friend
Julius Steiner
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** Julius Caesar (100– ...
, an Austrian teacher and lichenologist.
The genus was revised by
Aino Henssen
Aino Marjatta Henssen (12 April 1925, Elberfeld – 29 August 2011, Marburg), was a German lichenologist and systematist. Her father, Gottfried Henssen, was a folklorist and her mother was Finnish.
Education and career
Henssen began her studies ...
and
Peter Wilfred James
Peter Wilfred James (1930–2014) was an English botanist and lichenologist. He was a pioneer in the study of lichens as environmental indicators, especially of atmospheric pollution.
Early life and education
Peter W. James grew up in Sutton Co ...
in 1982.
In 2017, Damien Ernst and Roar Skovlund Poulsen described some new species, and
recombined others into the genus based on a study of the genus in the subantarctic islands of
Crozet and
Kerguelen
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.
Species
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Steinera intricata''
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Steinera isidiata''
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Steinera latispora''
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Steinera lebouvieri''
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Steinera membranacea''
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Steinera molybdoplaca''
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Steinera olechiana''
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Steinera pannarioides''
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Steinera polymorpha''
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Steinera sorediata''
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Steinera subantarctica''
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Steinera symptychia''
References
Peltigerales genera
Lichen genera
Taxa named by Alexander Zahlbruckner
Taxa described in 1906
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