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Heppia
Sign in to saveHeppia is a genus of olive, brownish, grey, or blackish squamulose, crustose, or peltate like lichens. Heppia was once the type genus of the family Heppiaceae, but that family was folded into synonymy with Lichinaceae.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 269
- With media
- 110
- Family
- Lichinaceae
- Collections
- DUKE, US, ASU, UTEP, F, TENN
- Recorded in
- New Zealand, United States, Venezuela, France, Indonesia, Mexico, Japan, Cote D'Ivoire
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Heppiaceae
- Image
- Heppia lutosa 97477.jpg
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- taxon name
- Heppia
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxonomic type
- Heppia adglutinata
- taxon common name
- Soil ruby lichens
- Commons category
- Heppia
- taxon author citation
- Naeg.
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Encyclopedic overview
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Heppia is a genus of olive, brownish, grey, or blackish squamulose, crustose, or peltate like lichens. Heppia was once the type genus of the family Heppiaceae, but that family was folded into synonymy with Lichinaceae.
In a multilocus phylogeny and re-classification of the class Lichinomycetes published in 2024, María Prieto, Mats Wedin and Matthias Schultz placed Heppia in the family Porocyphaceae as part of an emended, broader circumscription of that family; earlier treatments that folded Heppiaceae into Lichinaceae are therefore superseded by the new arrangement. Species of Heppia are cyanolichens (usually with filamentous cyanobacteria) that favour open, well-lit habitats on soil or rock, including biological soil crusts in dry regions; they characteristically produce small or peltate to crustose thalli and develop predominantly pycnoascocarpous sexual structures, consistent with the family diagnosis.
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