| Santessonia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Caliciales |
| Family: | Caliciaceae |
| Genus: | Santessonia Hale & Vobis |
| Type species | |
| Santessonia namibensis Hale & Vobis
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Santessonia is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Caliciaceae. The genus is distributed in Africa and South America, and contains three species.[1]
The genus was circumscribed by Mason Ellsworth Hale and Gernot Vobis in Bot. Not. vol.131 on page 1 in 1978.
The genus name of Santessonia is in honour of Rolf Santesson (1916–2013), who was a Swedish lichenologist and university lecturer.[2]
Species
As accepted by Species Fungorum;[3]
- Santessonia namibensis Hale & Vobis (1978)
- Santessonia peruviensis Follmann (2006)
- Santessonia roccelloides Follmann (2006)
Former species; S. trilocularis (Müll. Arg.) Bat. & J.L. Bezerra (1967) = Arthonia trilocularis, Arthoniaceae family
References
- ^ Kirk P.M., Cannon P.F., Minter D.W., Stalpers J.A. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 614. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
((cite book)): Vancouver style error: punctuation in name 1 (help) - ^ 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. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ^ "Santessonia - Search Page". www.speciesfungorum.org. Species Fungorum. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
Other sources
- Follmann, G. (1987) Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Flechtenfamilie Roccellaceae Chev. VIII. Inhaltsstoffe und Verwandtschaftsverhaltnisse von Roccella hereroensis Vain. und Roccella mossamedana Vain. - Journal of Plant Physiology 131: 145–151.
- Follmann, G. (1995) On the impoverishment of the lichen flora and the retrogression of the lichen vegetation in coastal central and northern Chile during the last decades. - Cryptogamic Botany 5(3): 224–231.
- Follmann, G. (2006) Two new roccelloid Physciaceae from Pacific South America and a synopsis of the genus Santessonia. - Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory 100: 651–670.
- Sérusiaux, E. and Wessels, D. (1984) Santessonia (Lecanorales, Buelliaceae) in the Namib Desert (South West Africa). - Mycotaxon 19: 479–502.