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. 1: XLVI, 100 in 1825.The genus name of Gassicurtia is in honour of Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt 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 36 species in the genus Gassicurtia:- Gassicurtia acidobaeomyceta
- Gassicurtia albomarginata
- Gassicurtia azorica
- Gassicurtia bellardii
- Gassicurtia blencoensis – Australia
- Gassicurtia capricornica – Australia
- Gassicurtia caririensis – Brazil
- Gassicurtia catasema
- Gassicurtia chermesina
- Gassicurtia clathrisidiata – Thailand
- Gassicurtia coccifera
- Gassicurtia coccinea
- Gassicurtia coccinoides
- Gassicurtia dodecaspora
- Gassicurtia elizae
- Gassicurtia endococcinea – Brazil
- Gassicurtia ferruginascens
- Gassicurtia gallowayi – Australia
- Gassicurtia jamesii – New Zealand
- Gassicurtia lignatilis
- Gassicurtia lopesiana
- Gassicurtia manguensia
- Gassicurtia marbachii
- Gassicurtia nordinii
- Gassicurtia omiae
- Gassicurtia pruinosa
- Gassicurtia pseudosubpulchella
- Gassicurtia restingiana – Brazil
- Gassicurtia rhizocarpoides – Brazil
- Gassicurtia rubromarginata – Brazil
- Gassicurtia rufofuscescens
- Gassicurtia silacea
- Gassicurtia subpulchella
- Gassicurtia vaccinii
- Gassicurtia vernicoma
- Gassicurtia victoriana – Australia