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''Gassicurtia'' is a
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
lichen A lichen ( , ) is a hybrid colony (biology), colony of algae or cyanobacteria living symbiotically among hypha, filaments of multiple fungus species, along with yeasts and bacteria embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualism (biology), m ...
ized
fungi A fungus (: fungi , , , or ; or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and mold (fungus), molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as one ...
in the family
Caliciaceae The Caliciaceae are a family (taxonomy), family of mostly lichen-forming fungus, fungi belonging to the class (taxonomy), class Lecanoromycetes in the division (mycology), division Ascomycota. Although the family has had its classification chan ...
.


Taxonomy

The genus was
circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle. * Circum ...
by French botanist
Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée was a French botanist who was born in Ardentes, 7 November 1789, and died in Paris on 21 May 1874. He was the author of works on botany and mycology, practical and historical pharmacology, Darwinism, and his exper ...
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 A monograph is generally a long-form work on one (usually scholarly) subject, or one aspect of a subject, typically created by a single author or artist (or, sometimes, by two or more authors). Traditionally it is in written form and published a ...
on ''
Buellia ''Buellia'' is a genus of mostly lichen-forming fungi in the family Caliciaceae. The fungi are usually part of a crustose lichen. In this case, the lichen species is given the same name as the fungus. But members may also grow as parasites on lic ...
'' sensu lato. The genus contains species that are part of the tropical ''Buellia'' group with 2-celled
ascospore In fungi, an ascospore is the sexual spore formed inside an ascus—the sac-like cell that defines the division Ascomycota, the largest and most diverse Division (botany), division of fungi. After two parental cell nucleus, nuclei fuse, the ascu ...
s, and which lack
alga Algae ( , ; : alga ) is an informal term for any organisms of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic organisms that are not plants, and includes species from multiple distinct clades. Such organisms range from unicellular microalgae, suc ...
e in the margin.


Species

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Species Fungorum ''Index Fungorum'' is an international project to index all formal names (Binomial nomenclature, scientific names) in the fungus Kingdom (biology), kingdom. As of 2015, the project is based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of three partn ...
accepts 36 species in the genus ''Gassicurtia'': *'' Gassicurtia acidobaeomyceta'' (2000) *'' Gassicurtia albomarginata'' (2016) *'' Gassicurtia azorica'' (2020) *'' Gassicurtia bellardii'' (2000) *'' Gassicurtia blencoensis'' (2016) – Australia *'' Gassicurtia capricornica'' (2016) – Australia *'' Gassicurtia caririensis'' (2014) – Brazil *'' Gassicurtia catasema'' (2000) *'' Gassicurtia chermesina'' (2000) *'' Gassicurtia clathrisidiata'' (2007) – Thailand *'' Gassicurtia coccifera'' (2000) *'' Gassicurtia coccinea'' (1825) *'' Gassicurtia coccinoides'' (2000) *'' Gassicurtia dodecaspora'' (2000) *'' Gassicurtia elizae'' (2000) *'' Gassicurtia endococcinea'' (2017) – Brazil *'' Gassicurtia ferruginascens'' (2000) *'' Gassicurtia gallowayi'' (2015) – Australia *'' Gassicurtia jamesii'' (2018) – New Zealand *'' Gassicurtia lignatilis'' (1837) *'' Gassicurtia lopesiana'' (2021) *'' Gassicurtia manguensia'' (2000) *'' Gassicurtia marbachii'' (2009) *'' Gassicurtia nordinii'' (2009) *'' Gassicurtia omiae'' (2009) *'' Gassicurtia pruinosa'' (2021) *''
Gassicurtia pseudosubpulchella ''Gassicurtia'' is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Caliciaceae. Taxonomy The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by French botanist Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée in Essai Crypt. Exot. (Paris) 1: XLVI, 100 in 1825. ...
'' (2000) *'' Gassicurtia restingiana'' (2020) – Brazil *'' Gassicurtia rhizocarpoides'' (2018) – Brazil *'' Gassicurtia rubromarginata'' (2014) – Brazil *'' Gassicurtia rufofuscescens'' (2000) *'' Gassicurtia silacea'' (1834)Gassicurtia silacea Fée, in Mérat, Nouv. Fl. Environs Paris, Edn 3 1: 252 (1834) *'' Gassicurtia subpulchella'' (2000) *'' Gassicurtia vaccinii'' (2000) *''
Gassicurtia vernicoma ''Gassicurtia'' is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Caliciaceae. Taxonomy The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by French botanist Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée in Essai Crypt. Exot. (Paris) 1: XLVI, 100 in 1825. ...
'' (2000) *'' Gassicurtia victoriana'' (2015) – Australia


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* {{Taxonbar, from=Q5526657 Caliciales Caliciales genera Lichen genera Taxa described in 1845 Taxa named by Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée