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Topelia
Sign in to saveTopelia is a genus of fungi within the family Stictidaceae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassLecanoromycetes
- OrderOstropales
- FamilyStictidaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Stictidaceae
- Collections
- F, UC, NY, ASU
- Recorded in
- Canada, United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Stictidaceae
- Image
- Topelia rosea 274708305.jpg
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- taxon name
- Topelia
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- topelia lichen
- taxonomic type
- Topelia rosea
- taxon author citation
- P.M. Jørg. & Vězda
- Commons category
- Topelia (lichen)
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Encyclopedic overview
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Topelia is a genus of fungi within the family Stictidaceae.
The genus name of Topelia is an anagram in honour of Josef Poelt (1924-1995), who was a German-Austrian botanist (Bryology, Mycology and Lichenology) and was Professor of Systematic Botany at the Free University of Berlin in 1965.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Topelia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.