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.[3]
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.[4]
^Elix, John A. (2016). "New species and new records of buellioid lichens from islands of the South Pacific Ocean". Telopea. 19: 1–10. doi:10.7751/telopea9265.
^ abAlves, Marilia Muryel Estevam; Aptroot, André; Lacerda, Sírleis Rodrigues; da Silva Cáceres, Marcela Eugenia (2014). "A new Eschatogonia species and two new Gassicurtia species from Chapada do Araripe, Ceará, NE Brazil". The Bryologist. 117 (1): 50–53. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-117.1.050. S2CID83784656.
^Aptroot, André; Feuerstein, Shirley Cunha; Cunha-Dias, Iane Paula Rego; de Lucena Nunes, Álvaro Rogerio; Honorato, Maykon Evangelista; da Silva Cáceres, Marcela Eugenia (2017). "New lichen species and lichen reports from Amazon forest remnants and Cerrado vegetation in the Tocantina Region, northern Brazil". The Bryologist. 120 (3): 320–328. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-120.3.320. S2CID89873704.
^ abElix, John A.; Kantvilas, Gintaras (2015). "New taxa and new records of crustose lichens in the family Physciaceae (Ascomycota) in Australia". Australasian Lichenology. 76: 16–23.
^Elix, John A. (2018). "Three new species and five new records of corticolous and lichenicolous buellioid lichens (Caliciaceae, Ascomycota) from New Zealand's subantarctic islands". Australasian Lichenology. 82: 60–67.
^Andrade, Dannyelly Santos; Aptroot, André; Lücking, Robert; Cardoso Barbosa, Bruno Micael; Cavalcante, Janice Gomes; da Silva Cáceres, Marcela Eugenia (2020). "Crustose Caliciaceae in Restinga vegetation in Brazil with a new species of Gassicurtia and two identification keys". The Bryologist. 123 (1): 75–83. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-123.1.075. S2CID212649539.
^Aptroot, A.; Cáceres, M.E.S. (2018). "New species and new records of lichens from inselbergs and surrounding Atlantic rain forest in the Chapada Diamantina (Bahia, Brazil)". Herzogia. 31: 359–373. doi:10.13158/heia.31.1.2018.359. S2CID198159962.
Marbach, Bernhard (2000). Corticole und lignicole Arten der Flechtengattung Buellia sensu lato in den Subtropen und Tropen [A study of corticolous and lignicolous species of the lichen genus Buellia s.l. in subtropical and tropical regions]. Bibliotheca Lichenologica (in German). Vol. 74. J. Cramer. pp. 1–384. ISBN978-3-443-58053-7.