Heyderia

Heyderia is a genus of fungi in the family Hemiphacidiaceae.^[1] The genus contains six species.^[2]

Heyderia
Heyderia abietis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Ascomycetes
Order:	Helotiales
Family:	Hemiphacidiaceae
Genus:	Heyderia (Fr.) Link
Type species
Heyderia abietis (Fr.) Link

The genus name of Heyderia is in honour of Johann Ernst Friedrich Heyder (1765-1797), who was a German doctor and botanist from the 'Universitäts-Chirurgicus' in Göttingen.^[3]

The genus was circumscribed by Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link in Tent. Disp. Meth. Fung. (Lipsiae) on page 36 in 1797.

Species

• Heyderia abietis
• Heyderia agariciphila
• Heyderia americana
• Heyderia cucullata
• Heyderia pusilla
• Heyderia sclerotiorum

References

1. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58. Archived from the original on 2009-03-18.
2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 316. ISBN 0-85199-826-7.
3. 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.