# Heppsora
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{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}
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| 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''
''H. indica''[{{cite web |title=''Heppsora'' D.D.Awasthi & K.P.Singh, 1977 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/7247036 |website=www.gbif.org |language=en}}]
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'''''Heppsora''''' is a genus of [lichen](/source/lichen)ized [fungi](/source/fungi) in the family [Ramalinaceae](/source/Ramalinaceae).[{{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 }}]
The genus name of ''Heppsora'' is in honour of [Johann Adam Philipp Hepp](/source/Johann_Adam_Philipp_Hepp) (1797–1867), a German physician and [lichenologist](/source/lichenologist).[{{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}}]
The genus was [circumscribed](/source/circumscription_(taxonomy)) by Dharani Dhar Awasthi and Krishna Pal Singh in Bryologist vol.80 on page 537 in 1977.