Krogia is a genus of corticolous lichens in the family Ramalinaceae.[1] It occurs in tropical humid forests and rainforests.[2] The genus was circumscribed by Norwegian lichenologist Einar Timdal in 2002, with Krogia coralloides assigned as the type species.[3]
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| Krogia macrophylla A & B in the field; C herbarium photograph of holotype. Scale bar=1 mm | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Lecanorales |
| Family: | Ramalinaceae |
| Genus: | Krogia Timdal (2002) |
| Type species | |
| Krogia coralloides Timdal (2002)
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The genus name of Krogia is in honour of Hildur Krog (1922–2014), who was a Norwegian botanist.[4]
Species
edit- Krogia antillarum Timdal (2009)[5] – West Indies
- Krogia borneensis Kistenich & Timdal (2018)[2] – Borneo
- Krogia coralloides Timdal (2002)[3] – Mauritius
- Krogia isidiata Kistenich & Timdal (2018)[2] – New Caledonia
- Krogia macrophylla Kistenich & Timdal (2018)[2] – New Caledonia
- Krogia microphylla Timdal (2011)[6] – Dominican Republic
References
edit- ^ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:11336/151990.
- ^ a b c d Kistenich, Sonja; Rikkinen, Jouko K.; Thüs, Holger; Vairappan, Charles S.; Wolseley, Patricia A.; Timdal, Einar (2018). "Three new species of Krogia (Ramalinaceae, lichenised Ascomycota) from the Paleotropics". MycoKeys. 40 (40). Pensoft Publishers: 69–88. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.40.26025. PMC 6170524. PMID 30294209.
- ^ a b Timdal, Einar (2002). "Krogia coralloides, a new lichen genus and species from Mauritius". The Lichenologist. 34 (4): 293–296. doi:10.1006/lich.2002.0400. S2CID 85652732.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ^ Timdal, Einar (2009). "Krogia antillarum (Ramalinaceae), a new lichen species from the West Indies". The Bryologist. 112 (2): 387–389. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-112.2.387. S2CID 84450760.
- ^ Lumbsch, H. T.; Ahti, T.; Altermann, S.; De Paz, G. A.; Aptroot, A.; Arup, U.; et al. (2011). "One hundred new species of lichenized fungi: a signature of undiscovered global diversity". Phytotaxa. 18 (1): 73. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.18.1.1. hdl:11336/4198.
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