''Pyrrhospora'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
lichen-forming
fungi
A fungus ( : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from ...
in the family
Lecanoraceae
The Lecanoraceae are a family of lichenized fungi in the order Lecanorales. Species of this family have a widespread distribution.
Taxonomy
Lecanoraceae was circumscribed by German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber
Gustav Wilhelm Körber ...
.
The genus was
circumscribed
In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius.
Not every polyg ...
by German lichenologist
Gustav Wilhelm Körber
Gustav Wilhelm Körber (10 January 1817, Hirschberg – 27 January 1885, Breslau) was a German lichenologist.
He studied natural sciences in Breslau and Berlin, obtaining his PhD in 1839 with the thesis ''De gonidiis lichenum''. After graduati ...
in 1855, with ''
Pyrrhospora quernea'' assigned as the
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...
.
Species
*''
Pyrrhospora bhutanensis''
*''
Pyrrhospora chlororphnia''
*''
Pyrrhospora endaurantia''
*''
Pyrrhospora fuscisidiata''
*''
Pyrrhospora luminescens''
*''
Pyrrhospora palmicola''
–
Seychelles
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*''
Pyrrhospora quernea''
*''
Pyrrhospora rubiginans''
Several species that were once classified in ''Pyrrhospora'' have since been transferred to the genus ''
Ramboldia''. These include:
*''Pyrrhospora amagiensis'' (now ''
Ramboldia amagiensis'')
*''Pyrrhospora arandensis'' (now ''
Ramboldia arandensis'')
*''Pyrrhospora aurantiaca'' (now ''
Ramboldia aurantiaca'')
*''Pyrrhospora aurea'' (now ''
Ramboldia aurea'')
*''Pyrrhospora bullata'' (now ''
Ramboldia bullata'')
*''Pyrrhospora cinnabarina'' (now ''
Ramboldia cinnabarina'')
*''Pyrrhospora elabens'' (now ''
Ramboldia elabens'')
*''Pyrrhospora gowardiana'' (now ''
Ramboldia gowardiana'')
*''Pyrrhospora griseococcinea'' (now ''
Ramboldia griseococcinea'')
*''Pyrrhospora laeta'' (now ''
Ramboldia laeta'')
*''Pyrrhospora lusitanica'' (now ''
Ramboldia lusitanica'')
*''Pyrrhospora manipurensis'' (now ''
Ramboldia manipurensis'')
*''Pyrrhospora petraeoides'' (now ''
Ramboldia petraeoides
''Ramboldia'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Ramboldiaceae. The genus was circumscribed in 1994 by Gintaras Kantvilas and John Alan Elix. It was emended in 2008 by the inclusion of ''Pyrrhospora'' species containing the anthra ...
'')
*''Pyrrhospora russula'' (now ''
Ramboldia russula'')
*''Pyrrhospora sanguinolenta'' (now ''
Ramboldia sanguinolenta'')
*''Pyrrhospora subcinnabarina'' (now ''
Ramboldia subcinnabarina'')
References
Lecanoraceae
Lichen genera
Lecanorales genera
Taxa named by Gustav Wilhelm Körber
Taxa described in 1855
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