Lopezaria

{{Short description|Genus of lichens}} {{italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Lopezaria | authority = Kalb & Hafellner (1990) | type_species = ''Lopezaria versicolor'' | type_species_authority = (Flot.) Kalb & Hafellner (1990) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''L. isidiza''<br> ''L. versicolor'' }} '''''Lopezaria''''' is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Ramalinaceae.<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>

The genus name of ''Lopezaria'' is in honour of Manuel López-Figueiras (1915-2012), who was a (Spanish-) Venezuelan botanist (Mycology and Lichenology), from the University of Havana (in Cuba).<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 Klaus Kalb and Josef Hafellner in Lich. Neotropici fasc. XI, vol.2 in 1990.

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Category:Ramalinaceae Category:Lichen genera Category:Lecanorales genera Category:Taxa named by Klaus Kalb Category:Taxa named by Josef Hafellner Category:Taxa described in 1990