Briancoppinsia is a fungal genus in the family Arthoniaceae. It is monotypic,[2] containing the single species Briancoppinsia cytospora, a lichenicolous fungus that parasitises parmelioid lichens, as well as Cladonia, Lepra, and Lecanora conizaeoides, among others.[3] The species was first described scientifically by Léon Vouaux in 1914 as Phyllosticta cytospora.[4] The genus was circumscribed in 2012 by Paul Diederich, Damien Ertz, James Lawrey, and Pieter van den Boom. The genus was named for Brian John Coppins, who is, according to the authors, an "eminent British lichenologist and expert of lichenicolous fungi".[5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Arthoniomycetes |
| Order: | Arthoniales |
| Family: | Arthoniaceae |
| Genus: | Briancoppinsia Diederich, Ertz, Lawrey & van den Boom (2012) |
| Species: | B. cytospora
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| Briancoppinsia cytospora (Vouaux) Diederich, Ertz, Lawrey & van den Boom (2012)
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Its morphology is reminiscent of Phoma cytospora, a lichenicolous coelomycete found on several genera of lichens. However, B. cytospora has several distinct characters, both anatomical, chemical and within DNA sequence that characterised it as a different species.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Synonymy. Current Name: Briancoppinsia cytospora (Vouaux) Diederich, Ertz, Lawrey & van den Boom, in Diederich, Lawrey, Sikaroodi, van den Boom & Ertz, Fungal Diversity 52(1): 8 (2012)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
- ^ Wijayawardene, N.N.; Hyde, K.D.; Dai, D.Q.; Sánchez-García, M.; Goto, B.T.; Saxena, R.K.; et al. (2022). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa – 2021". Mycosphere. 13 (1): 53–453. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2. hdl:10481/76378. S2CID 249054641.
- ^ Diederich, Paul; Lawrey, James D.; Ertz, Damien (2018). "The 2018 classification and checklist of lichenicolous fungi, with 2000 non-lichenized, obligately lichenicolous taxa". The Bryologist. 121 (3): 340–425 [350]. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-121.3.340. S2CID 92396850.
- ^ Vouaux, L. (1914). "Synopsis des champignons parasites de lichens". Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France (in French). 30: 135–198 [193].
- ^ a b Diederich, P.; Lawrey, J.D.; Sikaroodi, M.; van den Boom, P.; Ertz, D. (2012). "Briancoppinsia, a new coelomycetous genus of Arthoniaceae (Arthoniales) for the lichenicolous Phoma cytospora, with a key to this and similar taxa". Fungal Diversity. 52 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1007/s13225-011-0105-1.
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