Massalongia (fungus)

Massalongia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Massalongiaceae. It has four species.[2] The genus was circumscribed by German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber in 1855, with M. carnosa assigned as the type species.[3]

Massalongia
Massalongia carnosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Peltigerales
Family: Massalongiaceae
Genus: Massalongia
Körb. (1855)
Type species
Massalongia carnosa
(Dicks.) Körb. (1855)
Species

M. carnosa
M. griseolobulata
M. microphylliza
M. patagonica

Synonyms[1]

The genus name of Massalongia is in honour of Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo (1824-1860), who was an Italian lichenologist.[4]

Species
  • Massalongia carnosa (Dicks.) Körb. (1855)
  • Massalongia griseolobulata Øvstedal (2010)[5]
  • Massalongia microphylliza (Nyl.) Henssen (1963)
  • Massalongia patagonica Kitaura & A.P.Lorenz (2018)[6]

References
  1. "Synonymy: Massalongia Körb., Syst. lich. germ. (Breslau): 109 (1855)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  2. Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8.
  3. Körber, G.W. (1855). Systema lichenum Germaniae (in Latin). Breslau: Trewendt & Granier. p. 109.
  4. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  5. Øvstedal, D.O.; Gremmen, N.J.M. (2010). "New lichen species from Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island". Folia Cryptogamica Estonica. 47: 43–49.
  6. Liu, L.-N.; Razaq, A.; Atri, N.S.; Bau, T.; Belbahri, L.; Chenari Bouket, A.; Chen, L.P.; Deng, C.; Ilyas, S.; Khalid, A.N.; Kitaura, M.J.; Kobayashi, T.; Li, Y.; Pedroso Lorenz, A.; Ma, Y.-H.; Malysheva, E.; Malysheva, V.; Nuytinck, J.; Qiao, M.; Saini, MK; Scur, MC; Sharma, S; Shu, L.-L.; Spirin, V; Tanaka, Y; Tojo, M; Uzuhashi, S; Valério-Júnior, C.; Verbeken, A.; Verma, B.; Wu, R.-H.; Xu, J.-P.; Yu, .Z-F.; Zeng, H.; Zhang, B.; Banerjee, A.; Beddiar, A; Bordallo, J-J; Dafri, A; Dima, B.; Krisai-Greilhuber, I.; Lorenzini, M.; Mandal, R; Morte, A Sarathi Nath, P.; Papp, V.; Pavlík, J.; Rodríguez, A.; Ševčíková, H; Urban, A.; Voglmayr, H.; Zapparoli, G. 2018. Fungal Systematics and Evolution: FUSE 4. Sydowia. 70:211–286


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