Hymeneliaceae

Hymeneliaceae is a family of lichen-forming fungi in the order Baeomycetales. It contains three genera and about 40 species.[1] The family was circumscribed by German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber in 1855.[2]

Hymeneliaceae
Tremolecia atrata is the brownish-red crustose lichen; photographed at an altitude of 2,000 m (6,600 ft) in Carinthia, Austria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Baeomycetales
Family: Hymeneliaceae
Körb. (1855)
Type genus
Hymenelia
Kremp. (1852)
Genera

Hymenelia
Ionaspis
Tremolecia

Lichens in the Hymeneliaceae are saxicolous (rock-dwelling) and crustose, occurring predominantly in the cool-temperate climates to subarctic climates of both the Northern and Southern hemispheres.[3]

Genera

References
  1. 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 [158]. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2. S2CID 249054641.
  2. Körber, Gustav Wilhelm (1855). Systema lichenum Germaniae. Die Fletchen Deutschlands (insbesondere Schlesiens) Mikroskopische Geprüft, kritisch Gesichtet, charakterisch Beschrieben und systematisch Geordnet (in German). Breslau: Trewendt & Granier. p. 327.
  3. Fryday, Alan M.; McCarthy, John W. (2018). "Hymenelia parva (Hymeneliaceae, Ostropomycetidae): A new species from Newfoundland, Canada". Graphis Scripta. 30 (6): 44–50.


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