Obscuroplaca – Facesoffungi number: FoF

Obscuroplaca Søchting, Arup & Bungartz, nom. nov.

MycoBank number: MB 841162; Index Fungorum number: IF 841162; Facesoffungi number: FoF;

Replaced name: Phaeoplaca Søchting, Arup & Bungartz, Plant and Fungal Systematics 65: 546. 2020, nom. illegit. [ICN (Shenzhen) Art. 53.1]. Non Phaeoplaca Chodat, Bulletin de la Société Botanique de Genève, sér. 2, 17: 210. 1926.

Type: Obscuroplaca camptidia (Tuck.) Søchting et al. (syn. Lecanora camptidia Tuck.).

Etymology: This replacement name is a combination of the syllables ‘-placa’ hinting at Caloplaca (from which species in the genus were transferred), and the Latin ‘-obscuro’ meaning ‘dark’, referring to the overall dull color of thallus and apothecia, both lacking the typically bright anthraquinones of most other members of the Teloschistaceae.

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