Herteliana
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| Herteliana | |
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| Herteliana gagei | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Lecanorales |
| Family: | Ramalinaceae |
| Genus: | Herteliana P.James (1980) |
| Type species | |
| Herteliana taylorii (Salwey) P.James (1980) | |
| Species | |
Herteliana is a genus of lichen-forming fungi. It contains four species of crustose lichens.
The genus was circumscribed by the lichenologist Peter Wilfred James in 1980.[1] The genus name honours the German teacher and lichenologist Hannes Hertel.[2]
James originally classified the genus in the family Lecideaceae,[2] but it has since been included in the Ramalinaceae (2017),[3][4] and, more recently (2022), in the Cladoniaceae.[5] This is because in 2014, it was shown using molecular phylogenetics that Herteliana taylorii grouped together in a clade with Squamarina, and should thus be excluded from the Ramalinaceae and transferred elsewhere in the Lecanorales; the authors concomitantly recommended resurrecting the family Squamarinaceae (originally proposed by Josef Hafellner in 1984[6]) to contain Herteliana and Squamarina.[7] In 2018, Kraichuk and colleagues proposed to fold the Squamarinaceae into the Cladoniaceae,[8] a taxonomic suggestion that had been accepted by later authors.[3]
The original type species assigned by James, H. taylorii, is now considered synonymous with H. gagei.[9]