Halegrapha

Halegrapha is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Graphidaceae. It has nine species.^[1] The genus was circumscribed in 2011 by Eimy Rivas Plata and Robert Lücking, with Halegrapha chimaera assigned as the type species. The generic name honors American lichenologist Mason Hale.^[2]

Halegrapha
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Graphidales
Family:	Graphidaceae
Genus:	Halegrapha Rivas Plata & Lücking (2011)
Type species
Halegrapha chimaera Rivas Plata & Lücking (2011)

Halegrapha species generally resemble those in the script lichen genus Graphis, but are distinguished by having a hymenium and ascospores similar to those of genus Phaeographis.^[2]

Species

• Halegrapha chimaera Rivas Plata & Lücking (2011) – Philippines
• Halegrapha floridana Common & Lücking (2011) – Florida
• Halegrapha intergrapha Hale ex Lücking (2011) – Malaysia
• Halegrapha kenyana Kalb & Lücking (2011 – Kenya
• Halegrapha masoniana Weerakoon, Lücking & Lumbsch (2014)^[3] – Sri Lanka
• Halegrapha mexicana A.B.Peña & Lücking (2011) – Mexico
• Halegrapha mucronata (Stirt.) Lücking (2011) – Australia
• Halegrapha paulseniana Luch & Lücking (2018)^[4] – Hawaii
• Halegrapha yakushimensis M.Nakan., Kashiw. & K.H.Moon (2014)^[5] – Japan

References

1. 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.
2. Lücking, Robert; Rivas Plata, Eimy; Kalb, Klaus; Common, Ralph S.; Barcenas Peña, Alejandrina; Duya, Melizar V. (2011). "Halegrapha (Ascomycota: Graphidaceae), an enigmatic new genus of tropical lichenized fungi dedicated to Mason E. Hale Jr". The Lichenologist. 43 (4): 331–343. doi:10.1017/s0024282911000302.
3. Weerakoon, Gothamie; Lücking, Robert; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2014). "Thirteen new species of Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales) from Sri Lanka". Phytotaxa. 189 (1): 331–347. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.189.1.24.
4. Luch, Rubin Michael; Lücking, Robert (2018). "The genus Halegrapha new to Hawaii, with the new and potentially endemic species H. paulseniana and an updated checklist of Hawaiian lirellate Graphidaceae (Ascomycota: Ostropales)". Willdenowia. 48 (3): 415–423. doi:10.3372/wi.48.48311.
5. Kashiwadani, Hiroyuki; Nakanishi, Minoru; Moon, Kwang Hee (2014). "Two new species of Graphis and Halegrapha (Graphidaceae, Ostropales) from southern Japan" (PDF). Journal of Japanese Botany. 89: 12–16.