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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Arthoniomycetes |
| Order: | Arthoniales |
| Genus: | Minksia Müll.Arg. (1882) |
| Type species | |
| Minksia caesiella Müll.Arg. (1882)
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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
edit- 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]
References
edit- ^ "Synonymy: Minksia Müll. Arg., Proc. R. Soc. Edinb. 11: 469 (1882)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- ^ 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:10481/61998.
- ^ Müller, J. (1882). "Diagnoses lichenum Socotrensium novorum a participibus expeditionum Prof. Bayley Balfour et Dr. Schweinfurth lectorum". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (in Latin). 11: 457–472.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Makhija, U.; Patwardhan, P.G. (1987). "Some new and interesting lichens from India". Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany. 10 (2): 497–503.
- ^ Lücking, Robert (2013). "Minksia chilena (C. W. Dodge) Redón & Follmann belongs in Graphidaceae and its correct name is Carbacanthographis chilensis (Zahlbr.) Lücking". The Lichenologist. 45 (1): 127–129. doi:10.1017/S0024282912000643. S2CID 87147923.
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