''Streimannia'' is a genus of

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

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

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, it contains the single species ''Streimannia varieseptata''. The genus was

circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle. * Circum ...

by Göran Thor in Opera Bot. vol.103 on page 84 in 1990. The genus name of ''Streimannia'' is in honour of Vale Heinar Streimann (1938–2001), who was an (Estonian)-Australian

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

(Mycology and Bryology). He worked for the forestry commission in Papua-New guinea and also in the Botanical Garden in Canberra.

References

Roccellaceae Lichen genera Arthoniomycetes genera Taxa described in 1991 Taxa named by Göran Thor {{Arthoniomycetes-stub