# Claurouxia

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{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}
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| taxon = Claurouxia
| authority = [D.Hawksw.](/source/D.Hawksw.) (1988)
| type_species = '''''Claurouxia chalybeioides'''''
| type_species_authority = ([Nyl.](/source/Nyl.)) D.Hawksw. (1988)
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'''''Claurouxia''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [lichen](/source/lichen)-forming [fungi](/source/fungi) in the family [Lecanoraceae](/source/Lecanoraceae).<ref>{{cite journal|last=Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. |date=December 2007 |title=Outline of Ascomycota &ndash; 2007 |journal=Myconet |volume=13 |pages=1&ndash;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](/source/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](/source/Claude_Roux) a French botanist and geologist, who had, together, in 1984 proposed the generic name ''Pseudolecidea'', an invalid [homonym](/source/Homonym_(biology)), 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](/source/circumscription_(taxonomy)) by [David Leslie Hawksworth](/source/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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