''Vezdaea'' 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 ...

crustose lichen Crustose lichens are lichens that form a crust which strongly adheres to the Substrate (biology), substrate (soil, rock, tree bark, etc.), making separation from the substrate impossible without destruction. The basic structure of crustose lichen ...

s in the monotypic family Vezdaeaceae, which itself is the only

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in the order Vezdaeales. The genus was

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Elisabeth Tschermak-Woess Elisabeth Tschermak-Woess (28 January 1917 – 26 April 2001) was an Austrian University lecturer, cytologist, and phycologist who worked with lichen photobionts. In 1994, Tschermak-Woess was awarded the Acharius Medal for her lifetime contribut ...

and

Josef Poelt Josef Poelt was a botanist, bryologist and lichenologist. He held the chair in Systematic Botany and Plant Geography at the Free University of Berlin (1965 - 1972) and then was head of the Botanical Institute and Botanical Garden of Graz Universi ...

in 1976. The genus name honours Czech lichenologist

Antonín Vězda Antonín (Toni) Vězda (25 November 1920 – 10 November 2008) was a Czech lichenologist. After completing a university education that was postponed by World War II, Vězda taught botany at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech U ...

(1920-2008).

Species

*'' Vezdaea acicularis'' *'' Vezdaea aestivalis'' *'' Vezdaea cobria'' *'' Vezdaea dawsoniae'' *'' Vezdaea flava'' *'' Vezdaea foliicola'' *'' Vezdaea leprosa'' *'' Vezdaea obscura'' *'' Vezdaea poeltiana'' *'' Vezdaea polyspora'' *'' Vezdaea retigera'' *'' Vezdaea rheocarpa'' *'' Vezdaea schuyleriana'' *'' Vezdaea stipitata''

References

Pezizomycotina Lichen genera Taxa described in 1976 Ascomycota genera Taxa named by Josef Poelt Taxa named by Elisabeth Tschermak-Woess {{Ascomycota-stub