Preussia (fungus)

Preussia is a genus of fungi in the family Sporormiaceae.^[1] The widespread genus contains 51 species that grow on dung or in the soil.^[2]

Preussia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Subclass:	Pleosporomycetidae
Order:	Pleosporales
Family:	Sporormiaceae
Genus:	Preussia Fuckel (1867)
Type species
Preussia funiculata (Preuss) Fuckel (1870)

The genus name of Preussia is in honour of Carl Gottlieb Traugott Preuss (1795-1855), who was a German (Prussian) botanist (Algology and Mykology) and Apothecary. He was from 1834 - 1855 an Apothecary in Hoyerswerda.^[3]

The genus was circumscribed by Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel in Hedwigia vol.6 on page 175 in 1867 and previously in Linnaea vol.24 on page 143 in 1851.

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum;^[4]

• Preussia aemulans (Rehm) Arx (1973)
• Preussia africana Arenal, Platas & Peláez (2005)
• Preussia alloiomera (S.I. Ahmed & Cain) Kruys (2009)
• Preussia alpina N. Lundq. & Kruys (2015)
• Preussia americana (Griffiths) Guarro (1997)
• Preussia antarctica (Speg.) J.H. Chang & Y.Z. Wang (2009)
• Preussia aquilirostrata Guarro, Abdullah, Gené & Al-Saadoon (1997)
• Preussia bipartis (Cain) Kruys (2009)
• Preussia borealis (I. Egeland) Kruys (2009)
• Preussia calomera (S.I. Ahmed & Cain) Abdullah & Guarro (1999)
• Preussia citrullina R.M.F. Silva, R.J.V. Oliveira, Souza-Motta, J.L. Bezerra & G.A. Silva, (2018)
• Preussia clavispora Guarro (1990)
• Preussia commutata (Niessl) Abdullah & Guarro (1999)
• Preussia constricta Guarro, Al-Saadoon & Abdullah (1997)
• Preussia cymatomera (S.I. Ahmed & Cain) Soláns (1985
• Preussia dubia (S.I. Ahmed & Cain) Kruys (2009)
• Preussia flanaganii Boylan (1970)
• Preussia fleischhakii (Auersw.) Cain (1961)
• Preussia funiculata (Preuss) Fuckel (1870)
• Preussia globosa (J.N. Rai & J.P. Tewari) J.N. Rai & J.P. Tewari (1963)
• Preussia hexaphragmia Guarro, Al-Saadoon & Abdullah (1997)
• Preussia immersa (Zukal) J.H. Chang & Y.Z. Wang (2009)
• Preussia inaequalis (S.I. Ahmed & Asad) S. Ahmad (1979)
• Preussia isabellae Arenal, Platas & Peláez (2005)
• Preussia isomera Cain (1961)
• Preussia lasiocarpa (Lorenzo) Guarro & Gené (1997)
• Preussia lignicola (W. Phillips & Plowr.) Kruys (2009)
• Preussia longispora (Cain) Valldos. & Guarro (1990)
• Preussia longisporopsis (S.I. Ahmed & Cain) Kruys (2009)
• Preussia mediterranea Arenal, Platas & Peláez (2007)
• Preussia minipascua (S.I. Ahmed & Cain) J.H. Chang & Y.Z. Wang (2009)
• Preussia minipolymera J.H. Chang & Y.Z. Wang (2009)
• Preussia obliqua (R.S. Khan & Cain) J.C. Krug & R.S. Khan (1991)
• Preussia octocylindrospora N. Lundq. & Kruys (2015)
• Preussia octomera (Auersw.) Kruys (2009)
• Preussia peltigerae (Brackel) Diederich (2018)
• Preussia persica Asgari & Zare (2010)
• Preussia polymorpha (Cain) Abdullah & Guarro (1999)
• Preussia pyriformis (Speg.) Guarro (1997)
• Preussia quattuordecimcellularis (P. Welt, N. Heine & H. Friese) J.H. Chang & Y.Z. Wang (2009)
• Preussia scandinavica (I. Egeland) Guarro (1997)
• Preussia splendens (Cain) Kruys (2009)
• Preussia sultanii (Sultana & Malik) Guarro (1997)
• Preussia systenospora (S.I. Ahmed & Cain) Soláns (1985)
• Preussia tenerifae (Arx & Guarro) Kruys (2009)
• Preussia terricola Cain (1961)
• Preussia tetramera (S.I. Ahmed & Cain) Kruys (2009)
• Preussia typharum (Sacc.) Cain (1961)
• Preussia variispora Abdullah, Al-Saadoon & Guarro (1999)
• Preussia vulgaris (Corda) Cain (1961)

References

1. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58.
2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 561. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
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.
4. "Preussia - Search Page". www.speciesfungorum.org. Species Fungorum. Retrieved 16 September 2022.