Honeggeria is a single-species fungal genus in the family Teloschistaceae.[2] It contains the species Honeggeria rosmarieae, a corticolous (bark-dwelling), foliose lichen found in the United States. Characteristic features of the lichen include its isidia-like soredia, rhizines that are relatively broad and short, slender ascospores, and a rudimentary true exciple with a textura intricata tissue structure.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Teloschistales |
| Family: | Teloschistaceae |
| Genus: | Honeggeria S.Y.Kondr., Fedorenko, S.Stenroos, Kärnefelt, Elix, Hur & A.Thell (2012) |
| Species: | H. rosmarieae
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| Honeggeria rosmarieae (S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt) S.Y.Kondr., Fedorenko, S.Stenroos, Kärnefelt, Elix, Hur & A.Thell (2012)
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Taxonomy
editThe genus was circumscribed in 2012 by the lichenologists Sergey Kondratyuk, Natalya Fedorenko, Soili Stenroos, Ingvar Kärnefelt, John Elix, Jae-Seoun Hur, and Arne Thell. Honeggeria was one of several genera proposed by these authors (the others were Gallowayella, Golubkovia, Oxneria, and Jesmurrayia) in order to solve the problem of the polyphyletic genus Xanthomendoza.[4]
The single species of Honeggeria was first formally described a year earlier by Kondratyuk and Kärnefelt, who classified it in the genus Xanthomendoza. The type specimen was collected from Georgetown, Delaware, where it was found growing on aspen bark together with Parmelia sulcata. It is only known to occur at the type locality.[3] Both the species epithet and the genus name honour the Swiss lichenologist Rosmarie Honegger.[3][4]
In their 2013 molecular phylogenetics-based restructuring and revision of the Teloschistaceae, Ulf Arup and colleagues did not accept genus Honeggeria, claiming there was little phylogenetic support for its existence. They gave it as an example of a recently created Teloschistaceae genus that had "not been generally accepted", and instead treated Honeggeria as synonymous with Xanthomendoza.[5]
References
edit- ^ "GSD Species Synonymy. Current Name: Honeggeria rosmarieae (S.Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt) S.Y. Kondr., Fedorenko, S. Stenroos, Kärnefelt, Elix, Hur & A. Thell, in Fedorenko, Stenroos, Thell, Kärnefelt, Elix, Hur & Kondratyuk, Biblthca Lichenol. 108: 60 (2012)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
- ^ "Honeggeria". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ^ a b c 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" (PDF). Phytotaxa. 18 (1): 114–115. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.18.1.1.
- ^ a b Fedorenko, Natalya M.; Stenroos, Soili; Thell, Arne; Kärnefelt, Ingvar; Elix, John A.; Hur, Jae-Seoun; Kondratyuk, Sergij Y. (2012). "Molecular phylogeny of xanthorioid lichens (Teloschistaceae, Ascomycota), with notes on their morphology". In Kärnefelt, Ingvar; Seaward, Mark R.D.; Thell, Arne (eds.). Systematics, Biodiversity and Ecology of Lichens. Bibliotheca Lichenologica. Vol. 108. J. Cramer in der Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung. pp. 45–64. ISBN 978-3-443-58087-2.
- ^ Arup, Ulf; Søchting, Ulrik; Frödén, Patrik (2013). "A new taxonomy of the family Teloschistaceae". Nordic Journal of Botany. 31 (1): 16–83. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1051.2013.00062.x.