Gassicurtia is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Caliciaceae.
Taxonomy The genus was circumscribed by French botanist Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée in Essai Crypt. Exot. (Paris) 1: XLVI, 100 in 1825.
The genus name of Gassicurtia is in honour of Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (1731–1799) who was a French chemist who synthesised the first organometalic compound.
It was later resurrected by Bernhard Marbach in his 2000 monograph on Buellia sensu lato. The genus contains species that are part of the tropical Buellia group with 2-celled ascospores, and which lack algae in the margin.
Species , Species Fungorum accepts 36 species in the genus Gassicurtia:
Gassicurtia acidobaeomyceta (2000) Gassicurtia albomarginata (2016) Gassicurtia azorica (2020)Gassicurtia azorica Van den Boom, Acta bot. hung. 62(3-4): 420 (2020) Gassicurtia bellardii (2000) Gassicurtia blencoensis (2016) – Australia Gassicurtia capricornica (2016) – Australia Gassicurtia caririensis (2014) – Brazil Gassicurtia catasema (2000) Gassicurtia chermesina (2000) Gassicurtia clathrisidiata (2007) – Thailand Gassicurtia coccifera (2000) Gassicurtia coccinea (1825) Gassicurtia coccinoides (2000) Gassicurtia dodecaspora (2000) Gassicurtia elizae (2000) Gassicurtia endococcinea (2017) – Brazil Gassicurtia ferruginascens (2000) Gassicurtia gallowayi (2015) – Australia Gassicurtia jamesii (2018) – New Zealand Gassicurtia lignatilis (1837)Gassicurtia lignatilis Fée, Linnaea 11: 605-606 (1837) Gassicurtia lopesiana (2021)Gassicurtia lopesiana Aptroot & M.F. Souza, Cryptog. Mycol. 42(10): 173 (2021) Gassicurtia manguensia (2000) Gassicurtia marbachii (2009) Gassicurtia nordinii (2009) Gassicurtia omiae (2009) Gassicurtia pruinosa (2021)Gassicurtia pruinosa Aptroot & M.F. Souza, Cryptog. Mycol. 42(10): 177 (2021) Gassicurtia pseudosubpulchella (2000) Gassicurtia restingiana (2020) – Brazil Gassicurtia rhizocarpoides (2018) – Brazil Gassicurtia rubromarginata (2014) – Brazil Gassicurtia rufofuscescens (2000) Gassicurtia silacea (1834)Gassicurtia silacea Fée, in Mérat, Nouv. Fl. Environs Paris, Edn 3 1: 252 (1834) Gassicurtia subpulchella (2000) Gassicurtia vaccinii (2000) Gassicurtia vernicoma (2000) Gassicurtia victoriana (2015) – Australia
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