Fuscopannaria

Fuscopannaria is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Pannariaceae. It has 55 species.

Taxonomy
The genus was circumscribed by Norwegian lichenologist Per Magnus Jørgensen in 1994, with Fuscopannaria leucosticta assigned as the type species. Jørgensen had proposed the genus a year earlier, but the genus was not validly published at that time.

Moelleropsis is a genus that was published by Vilmos Kőfaragó-Gyelnik in 1940, with Moelleropsis nebulosa assigned as its type species. Using molecular phylogenetics, it was later shown that this taxon was nested within Fuscopannaria. Because Moelleropsis was published earlier than Fuscopannaria, the botanical rules for nomenclature indicated that Fuscopannaria be folded into synonymy with Moelleropsis. However, this would have meant that several dozen species would have had to change their names, so, in order to preserve "nomenclatural stability", in 2013 Jørgensen and colleagues proposed to conserve the name Fuscopannaria against Moelleropsis. This proposal was accepted by the Nomenclature Committee for Fungi in 2017.

Species

 * Fuscopannaria abscondita P.M.Jørg. (2002) – Svalbard
 * Fuscopannaria alaskana P.M.Jørg. & Tønsberg (2000)
 * Fuscopannaria albomaculata P.M.Jørg. (2004) – China
 * Fuscopannaria aurita P.M.Jørg. (2000)
 * Fuscopannaria cacuminum P.M.Jørg. & Sipman (2006) – Papua New Guinea
 * Fuscopannaria caribaea Øvstedal (2007) – French Antilles
 * Fuscopannaria cheiroloba (Müll.Arg.) P.M.Jørg. (2000)
 * Fuscopannaria coerulescens P.M.Jørg. (2000) – Nepal; New Guinea
 * Fuscopannaria convexa P.M.Jørg. (2005)
 * Fuscopannaria coralloidea P.M.Jørg. (2000)
 * Fuscopannaria crustacea P.M.Jørg. (2000) – New Zealand
 * Fuscopannaria cyanogranulosa P.M.Jørg. (2007) – China
 * Fuscopannaria cyanolepra (Tuck.) P.M.Jørg. (2000)
 * Fuscopannaria dillmaniae T.Sprib. (2020) – Alaska
 * Fuscopannaria dispersa P.M.Jørg. (2000)
 * Fuscopannaria dissecta P.M.Jørg. (2000)
 * Fuscopannaria frullaniae (Maass) E.Tripp & Lendemer (2018)
 * Fuscopannaria granulans P.M.Jørg. (1999) – New Zealand
 * Fuscopannaria granulifera P.M.Jørg. & Upreti (2004) – India
 * Fuscopannaria hirsuta P.M.Jørg. (2004) – China
 * Fuscopannaria ignobilis (Anzi) P.M.Jørg. (1994)
 * Fuscopannaria incisa (Pers.) P.M.Jørg. (2000)
 * Fuscopannaria leprosa P.M.Jørg. & Tønsberg (2000)
 * Fuscopannaria leucosticta (Tuck. ex E.Michener) P.M.Jørg. (1994)
 * Fuscopannaria mediterranea (Tav.) P.M.Jørg. (1994)
 * Fuscopannaria minor (Darb.) P.M.Jørg. (1999) – New Zealand
 * Fuscopannaria nebulosa (Hoffm.) E.Tripp & Lendemer (2018)
 * Fuscopannaria obtegens P.M.Jørg. (2007) – China
 * Fuscopannaria pacifica P.M.Jørg. (2000)
 * Fuscopannaria praetermissa (Nyl.) P.M.Jørg. (1994)
 * Fuscopannaria ramulina P.M.Jørg. & Tønsberg (2000)
 * Fuscopannaria rugosa H.J.Liu & J.S.Hu (2016) – China
 * Fuscopannaria saltuensis P.M.Jørg. (2000)
 * Fuscopannaria siamensis P.M.Jørg. & Wolseley (2000)
 * Fuscopannaria sorediata P.M.Jørg. (2000) – eastern North America; Japan
 * Fuscopannaria subgemmascens Upreti & Divakar (2005) – India
 * Fuscopannaria subimmixta (C.Knight) P.M.Jørg. (1999) – New Zealand
 * Fuscopannaria subincisa (Zahlbr.) P.M.Jørg. (2000)
 * Fuscopannaria thiersii P.M.Jørg. (2000)
 * Fuscopannaria venusta P.M.Jørg. & Sipman (2006) – Papua New Guinea
 * Fuscopannaria viridescens P.M.Jørg. & Zhurb. (2002) – Siberia; Alaska