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Combea

Combea is a genus of lichens in the family Opegraphaceae. It has two species. The genus was circumscribed by Italian botanist Giuseppe De Notaris in 1846.

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Combea
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Arthoniomycetes
Order: Arthoniales
Family: Opegraphaceae
Genus: Combea
De Not. (1846)
Type species
Combea pruinosa
De Not. (1846)
Species

C. californica
C. mollusca

Synonyms1

Combea is a genus of lichens in the family Opegraphaceae. It has two species.2 The genus was circumscribed by Italian botanist Giuseppe De Notaris in 1846.3

The genus name of Combea is in honour of Francesco Comba (fl. 1845), an Italian lab assistant and draughtsman, from the Zoological Museum in Turin.4

Species

  • Combea californica (Th.Fr.) Follmann & M.Geyer (1986)5
  • Combea mollusca (Ach.) Nyl. (1860)
References

References

  1. "Synonymy: Combea De Not., G. bot. ital. 2(1.1): 223 (1846)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  2. 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.
  3. De Notaris, G. (1846). "Frammenti lichenografici di un lavoro inedito". Giornale Botanico Italiano (in Italian). 2 (1): 174–224.
  4. 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.
  5. Follmann, G.; Geyer, M. (1986). "Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Flechtenfamilie Roccellaceae Chev. VII: Inhaltsstoffe und Verwandtschaftsbeiziehungen der Gattungen Combea de Not. und Schizopelte T.M. Fries". Zeitschrift für Naturforschung (in German). 41 (11–12): 1117–1118. doi:10.1515/znc-1986-11-1227. S2CID 86243152.