Zeroviella is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the subfamily Xanthorioideae of the family Teloschistaceae. It has eight saxicolous (rock-dwelling) species. Zeroviella was segregated from Rusavskia, a closely related genus, in 2015.
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Zeroviella is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the subfamily Xanthorioideae of the family Teloschistaceae. It has eight saxicolous (rock-dwelling) species. Zeroviella was segregated from Rusavskia, a closely related genus, in 2015.
==Taxonomy== The genus was circumscribed by lichenologists Sergey Kondratyuk and Jae-Seoun Hur in 2015, to contain the species complex centred around Rusavskia papillifera. Accordingly, Zeroviella papillifera was assigned as the type species of the genus. According to their phylogenetic analysis, these species formed a monophyletic branch, warranting distinction as a new genus.
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