Halecania Lichen

Halecania is a genus of fungi in the family Leprocaulaceae. It has 22 species.^[1] The genus was circumscribed by Austrian lichenologist Michaela Mayrhofer in 1987, with Halecania alpivaga assigned as the type species. She created Halecania to contain species, formerly placed in Lecania, with the following characteristics: uniformly amyloid apical domes, paraphyses with dark brown apical caps, and halonate ascospores (i.e., surrounded by a transparent coat).^[2]

Species

• Halecania alpivaga (Th.Fr.) M.Mayrhofer (1987)
• Halecania athallina Fryday (2020)^[3] – Alaska
• Halecania australis Lumbsch (1994)
• Halecania bryophila Fryday & Coppins (1996)
• Halecania elaeiza (Nyl.) M.Mayrhofer (1987)
• Halecania etayoana Palice, van den Boom & Elix (2009)
• Halecania fuscopannariae Etayo & van den Boom (2009)
• Halecania giraltiae van den Boom & Etayo (2001)
• Halecania laevis M.Brand & van den Boom (2009)
• Halecania lecanorina (Anzi) M.Mayrhofer (1987)
• Halecania lobulata van den Boom & Elix (2005)^[4]
• Halecania micacea Fryday & Coppins (1996)^[5]
• Halecania pakistanica van den Boom & Elix (2005)^[4]
• Halecania panamensis van den Boom (2017)^[6] – Panama
• Halecania pannarica M.Brand & van den Boom (2009)
• Halecania parasitica Aptroot & K.H.Moon (2015)^[7]
• Halecania pepegospora (H.Magn.) van den Boom (2005)
• Halecania ralfsii (Salwey) M.Mayrhofer (1987)
• Halecania rhypodiza (Nyl.) Coppins (1989)
• Halecania robertcurtisii T.J.Curtis & Lendemer (2022)^[8] – eastern North America
• Halecania santessonii M.P.Andreev (2010)^[9] – Russia
• Halecania spodomela (Nyl.) M.Mayrhofer (1987)
• Halecania subalpivaga S.Y.Kondr., Lőkös & Hur (2015)
• Halecania subsquamosa (Müll.Arg.) van den Boom & H.Mayrhofer (2007)
• Halecania tornensis (H.Magn.) M.Mayrhofer (1987)
• Halecania viridescens Coppins & P.James (1989)

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