Harpidium is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Harpidiaceae. The genus contains three species.[1] Harpidium was circumscribed in 1855 by German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber, with Harpidium rutilans assigned as the type species.[2]

Harpidium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Family: Harpidiaceae
Genus: Harpidium
Körb. (1855)
Type species
Harpidium rutilans
Körb. (1855)
Species

H. gavilaniae
H. nashii
H. rutilans

Species edit

The taxon Harpidium glaucophanum (Nyl.) Hasse (1913) is now known as Rhizoplaca glaucophana.[6]

References edit

  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. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2. hdl:10481/76378.
  2. ^ Körber, Gustav Wilhelm (1855). Systema lichenum Germaniae (in German). Breslau: Trewendt & Granier. pp. 157, 425.
  3. ^ Lumbsch, H.T.; Ahti, T.; Altermann, S.; De Paz, G.A.; Aptroot, A.; Arup, U.; et al. (2011). "One hundred new species of lichenized fungi: a signature of undiscovered global diversity". Phytotaxa. 18 (1): 1–127 [64]. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.18.1.1. hdl:11336/4198.
  4. ^ Rico, Víctor J. (2022). "Long sigmoid and twisted ascospores in the genus Harpidium: H. longisporum sp. nov., a synopsis of the genus and a key to the species". The Lichenologist. 54 (3–4): 175–181. doi:10.1017/s0024282922000123.
  5. ^ Schultz, Matthias; Printzen, Christian; Scheidegger, Christoph (2000). "Harpidium nashii sp. nov., a new species and a genus new to North America". The Bryologist. 103 (4): 802–805. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(2000)103[0802:hnsnan]2.0.co;2. S2CID 84914679.
  6. ^ "Record Details: Harpidium glaucophanum (Nyl.) Hasse, Contr. U.S. natnl. Herb. 17: 86 (1913)". Index Fungorum. Retrieved 27 March 2022.