Minksia
Genus of lichens
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Minksia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi of uncertain familial placement in the order Arthoniales.[2] The genus was circumscribed by Swiss lichenologist Johannes Müller Argoviensis in 1882 with Minksia caesiella assigned as the type species.[3]
| Minksia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Arthoniomycetes |
| Order: | Arthoniales |
| Family: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | Minksia Müll.Arg. (1882) |
| Type species | |
| Minksia caesiella Müll.Arg. (1882) | |
| Species | |
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M. alba | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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The genus name of Minksia is in honour of Arthur Minks (1846-1908), who was a German doctor and botanist (Mycology and Lichenology), who worked in Stettin.[4]
Species
- Minksia alba Makhija & Patw. (1988)[5] – India
- Minksia caesiella Müll.Arg. (1882)
- Minksia candida Müll.Arg. (1882)
- Minksia irregularis (Müll.Arg.) Müll.Arg. (1895)
- Minksia saxicola J.Hedrick (1942)
Minksia angolensis (Nyl.) Makhija & Patw. is now known as Tremotylium angolense.
Minksia chilena (C.W.Dodge) Redón & Follmann (1972) is now Carbacanthographis chilensis (family Graphidaceae).[6]
