Gassicurtia
''Gassicurtia'' is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Caliciaceae. Taxonomy The genus was circumscribed by French botanist Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée in Essai Crypt. Exot. (Paris) 1: XLVI, 100 in 1825. The genus name of ''Gassicurtia'' is in honour of Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (1731–1799) who was a French chemist who synthesised the first organometalic compound. It was later resurrected by Bernhard Marbach in his 2000 monograph on '' Buellia'' sensu lato. The genus contains species that are part of the tropical ''Buellia'' group with 2-celled ascospores, and which lack algae in the margin. Species , Species Fungorum accepts 30 species in the genus ''Gassicurtia'': *''Gassicurtia acidobaeomyceta'' (2000) *''Gassicurtia albomarginata'' (2016) *''Gassicurtia bellardii'' (2000) *''Gassicurtia blencoensis'' (2016) – Australia *''Gassicurtia capricornica'' (2016) – Australia *''Gassicurtia caririensis'' (2014) – Brazil *''Gassicurtia catasema'' ...
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