Heppia

Heppia
Heppia lutosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lichinomycetes
Order: Lichinales
Family: Lichinaceae
Genus: Heppia
Nägeli ex A.Massal. (1854)
Type species
Heppia adglutinata
(Kremp.) A.Massal. (1854)
Synonyms[1]

Heppia is a genus of olive, brownish, gray, or blackish squamulose, crustose, or peltate like lichens.[2] Heppia was once the type genus of the family Heppiaceae, but that family was folded into synonymy with Lichinaceae.[3]

The genus name of Heppiella is in honour of Johann Adam Philipp Hepp (1797–1867), a German physician and lichenologist.[4]

The genus was circumscribed by Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli and Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo in Geneac. Lich. (Verona) 7–8 in 1854.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference urlFungorum synonymy: Heppia was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 1, Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.) 2001, [1]
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Schultz & Büdel 2003 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  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.