Swinscowia
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| Swinscowia | |
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| Swinscowia jamesii | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Dothideomycetes |
| Order: | Strigulales |
| Family: | Strigulaceae |
| Genus: | Swinscowia S.H.Jiang, Lücking & Sérus. (2020) |
| Type species | |
| Swinscowia jamesii (Swinscow) S.H.Jiang, Lücking & Sérus. (2020) | |
| Species | |
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Swinscowia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Strigulaceae. It has 34 species.[1] Swinscowia was proposed in 2020 by the lichenologists Shu-Hua Jiang, Robert Lücking, and Emmanuël Sérusiaux to contain non-foliicolous species that were isolated from bark and rocks.[2] Swinscowia jamesii, a species that was originally described in genus Geisleria, and later transferred to Strigula,[3] is the type species of the genus. The genus name honours British lichenologist Dougal Swinscow,[2] who originally described the type species in 1967.[4]