Heppsora

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Heppsora | authority = D.D. Awasthi & Kr.P. Singh | type_species = ''Heppsora indica'' | type_species_authority = D.D. Awasthi & Kr.P. Singh | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''H. bullata''<br> ''H. indica''<ref name="gbif">{{cite web |title=''Heppsora'' D.D.Awasthi & K.P.Singh, 1977 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/7247036 |website=www.gbif.org |language=en}}</ref> }} '''''Heppsora''''' is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Ramalinaceae.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. |date=December 2007 |title=Outline of Ascomycota – 2007 |journal=Myconet |volume=13 |pages=1–58 |url=http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |publisher=The Field Museum, Department of Botany |location=Chicago, USA |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |archivedate=2009-03-18 }}</ref>

The genus name of ''Heppsora'' is in honour of Johann Adam Philipp Hepp (1797–1867), a German physician and lichenologist.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 | s2cid=246307410 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref>

The genus was circumscribed by Dharani Dhar Awasthi and Krishna Pal Singh in Bryologist vol.80 on page 537 in 1977.<ref name="gbif"/>

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Category:Ramalinaceae Category:Lichen genera Category:Lecanorales genera Category:Taxa described in 1977 Category:Taxa named by Dharani Dhar Awasthi