Harrya is a fungal genus in the family Boletaceae. It was circumscribed in 2012 to contain the species Harrya atriceps and the type Harrya chromapes.[1]

Harrya
Harrya chromapes
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Harrya

Halling, Nuhn & Osmundson (2012)
Type species
Harrya chromapes
(Frost) Halling, Nuhn, Osmundson, & Manfr.Binder (2012)

The genus name of Harrya is in honour of Harry Delbert Thiers (1919–2000), who was an American mycologist who studied and named many fungi native to North America, particularly California.[2]

Species edit

As accepted by Species Fungorum;[3]

Image Scientific Name Taxon author Year Distribution
Harrya alpina Y.C. Li & Zhu L. Yang 2016
Harrya atriceps Halling, G.M. Muell. & Osmundson 2012 Costa Rica
Harrya atrogrisea Y.C. Li & Zhu L. Yang 2016
  Harrya chromapes (Frost) Halling, Nuhn, Osmundson & Manfr. Binder 2012
Harrya moniliformis Y.C. Li & Zhu L. Yang 2016
Harrya subalpina Y.C. Li & Zhu L. Yang 2016

References edit

  1. ^ Halling RE, Nuhn M, Osmundson T, Fechner N, Trappe JM, Soytong K, Arora D, Hibbett DS, Binder M (2012). "Affinities of the Boletus chromapes group to Royoungia and the description of two new genera, Harrya and Australopilus". Australian Systematic Botany. 25 (6): 418–31. doi:10.1071/SB12028. S2CID 53617271.
  2. ^ 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. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  3. ^ "Harrya - Search Page". www.speciesfungorum.org. Species Fungorum. Retrieved 16 November 2022.

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