''Honeggeria'' is a single-species fungal genus in the family

Teloschistaceae The Teloschistaceae are a large family of mostly lichen-forming fungi belonging to the class Lecanoromycetes in the division Ascomycota. The family, estimated to contain over 1800 species, was extensively revised in 2013, including the creation o ...

. 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 , and a rudimentary with a tissue structure.

Taxonomy

The genus was

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in 2012 by the lichenologists

Sergey Kondratyuk Sergey Yakovlevich Kondratyuk ( uk, Сергій Якович Кондратюк) (born 17 May 1959) is a Ukrainian botanist specialising in lichenology. His research deals with the taxonomy, floristics, ecology and geography of lichens and lic ...

, Natalya Fedorenko, Soili Stenroos,

Ingvar Kärnefelt Jan Eric Ingvar Kärnefelt (born 1944) is a Swedish lichenologist. Early life and education Kärnefelt was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1944. His initial goal in his higher-level studies at University of Cologne in 1966–1967 was to become ...

, John Elix, Jae-Seoun Hur, and Arne Thell. ''Honeggeria'' was one of several genera proposed by these authors (the others were ''

Gallowayella ''Gallowayella'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Teloschistaceae. It has 15 species. The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed in 2012 by Sergey Kondratyuk, Natalya Fedorenko, Soili Stenroos, Ingvar Kärnefelt, Joh ...

'', ''

Golubkovia ''Golubkovia'' is a single-species genus in the family Teloschistaceae. It contains the species ''Golubkovia trachyphylla'', a crustose lichen. The genus was circumscribed in 2014 by Sergey Kondratyuk, Ingvar Kärnefelt, John Elix, Arne Thell, a ...

'', ''

Oxneria ''Oxneria'' is a genus of foliose lichens in the family Teloschistaceae. It has four species. The genus was circumscribed in 2003 by Sergey Kondratyuk and Ingvar Kärnefelt, with ''Oxneria alfredii'' assigned as the type species. The generic nam ...

'', and '' Jesmurrayia'') in order to solve the problem of the polyphyletic genus ''

Xanthomendoza ''Xanthomendoza'' is a genus of small, bright orange foliose lichen, foliose lichens with lecanorine apothecia. It is in the family Teloschistaceae. Members of the genus are List of common names of lichen genera, commonly called sunburst lichens ...

''. 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. Both the species epithet and the genus name honour the Swiss lichenologist

Rosmarie Honegger Rosmarie Honegger (born 1947) is a Swiss lichenologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Zurich. Academic career Honegger was born in 1947 and grew up in Emmental, Switzerland. She graduated with a PhD in biology from the Univers ...

. 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

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with ''Xanthomendoza''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q27440391 , from2=Q27439325 Teloschistales Teloschistales genera Monotypic Lecanoromycetes genera Lichen genera Taxa described in 2012 Taxa named by Jae-Seoun Hur Taxa named by Sergey Kondratyuk Taxa named by Ingvar Kärnefelt Taxa named by Arne Thell Taxa named by Soili Stenroos