Koerberiaceae
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| Koerberiaceae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Peltigerales |
| Family: | Koerberiaceae T.Sprib. & Muggia (2012) |
| Genera | |
Koerberiaceae is a small family of lichen-forming fungi in the order Peltigerales.[1] It contains 3 genera and 9 species. The family was proposed by Toby Spribille and Lucia Muggia in 2012, after molecular phylogenetic analysis revealed the existence of three lineages of lichen-forming fungi in the suborder Peltigerineae of the order Peltigerales. The lineages represented the genera Steinera, Koerberia (the type genus of the family), and Vestergrenopsis.[2] The latter genus was later folded into synonymy with Tingiopsidium.[3]
Steinera, circumscribed by Alexander Zahlbruckner in 1906,[4] was previously classified in family Koerberiaceae, but the genus and many of its species were transferred to the family Arctomiaceae in 2017, and a new genus Henssenia was created to contain the remaining species.[5]