{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Claurouxia | authority = D.Hawksw. (1988) | type_species = '''''Claurouxia chalybeioides''''' | type_species_authority = (Nyl.) D.Hawksw. (1988) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = }}
'''''Claurouxia''''' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Lecanoraceae.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. |date=December 2007 |title=Outline of Ascomycota – 2007 |journal=Myconet |volume=13 |pages=1–58 |url=http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |publisher=The Field Museum, Department of Botany |location=Chicago, USA |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |archivedate=2009-03-18 }}</ref> This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species '''''Claurouxia chalybeioides'''''.
The genus name of ''Claurouxia'' is in honour of F.J. Georges Clauzade (1914–2002) a French teacher and botanist (Mycology and Lichenology) and Claude Roux a French botanist and geologist, who had, together, in 1984 proposed the generic name ''Pseudolecidea'', an invalid homonym, for the same species.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 | s2cid=246307410 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref>
The genus was circumscribed by David Leslie Hawksworth in Syst. Ascom. Vol. 7 on page 65 in 1988.
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Category:Lecanoraceae Category:Lichen genera Category:Monotypic Lecanorales genera Category:Taxa described in 1988 Category:Taxa named by David Leslie Hawksworth
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