{{Short description|Genus of lichen-forming fungi}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Huea | authority = C.W.Dodge & G.E.Baker (1938) | type_species = ''Huea flava'' | type_species_authority = C.W.Dodge & G.E.Baker (1938) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivisions = | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = }}

'''''Huea''''' was a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Lecanoraceae.<ref name="Wijayawardene et al. 2020"/> ''Huea'' is a now a rejected generic name for Antarctic crustose lichens, originally introduced in 1938 but later shown to have the same type species as the established genus ''Carbonea'', leading to its formal rejection under the botanical code.

==Taxonomy==

The genus ''Huea'' was introduced in 1938 by Carroll William Dodge and Gladys Elizabeth Baker for three species of crustose lichens from Antarctica, with ''Huea flava'' designated as the type species.<ref name="Dodge & Baker 1938"/> In the decades that followed, several dozen additional species were transferred into the genus, although most of these are now thought to belong in other, better-defined genera. Re-examination of the original type material of ''H.&nbsp;flava'' showed that the type thallus is fertile and can be matched with ''Lecidea capsulata'', a species now placed in the genus ''Carbonea'' and treated as a synonym of ''Carbonea vorticosa''. This means that ''Huea'' is, in fact, an older name for ''Carbonea'', a well-established genus that currently contains around 30 species.<ref name="May & Lendemer 2023"/>

To avoid disrupting the prevailing use of ''Carbonea'' and at the same time keep a name for the small, apparently natural group of Antarctic species traditionally called ''Huea'', Fryday and co-authors proposed to conserve ''Huea'' with a different type species, ''H.&nbsp;cerussata''. During consideration of this proposal, committee members instead favoured a cleaner solution: to reject the name ''Huea'' outright and, if necessary, introduce a new generic name for the Antarctic group. They argued that the original circumscription of ''Huea'' does not correspond to any clearly delimited modern genus, and that reusing the name in a new sense would perpetuate confusion. The proposal to conserve ''Huea'' with a new type was not supported, whereas an alternative proposal to reject the name ''Huea'' was accepted by the Nomenclature Committee for Fungi, which recommended that ''Huea'' (typified by ''H.&nbsp;flava'') be treated as a rejected name under the botanical code.<ref name="May & Lendemer 2023"/>

The genus name honours Father Auguste-Marie Hue (1840–1917), a French lichenologist and clergyman.<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=de |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022}}</ref>

==Species== *''Huea albidocaerulescens'' {{small|(Müll. Arg.) C.W.Dodge (1971)}} *''Huea albidofusca'' {{small|(Nyl.) C.W.Dodge (1971)}} *''Huea aspicilioidea'' {{small|(Zahlbr.) C.W.Dodge (1971)}} *''Huea austroshetlandica'' {{small|(Zahlbr.) C.W.Dodge (1973)}} *''Huea cerussata'' {{small|(Hue) C.W.Dodge & G.E.Baker (1938)}} *''Huea comorensis'' {{small|(Zahlbr.) C.W.Dodge (1971)}} *''Huea confluens'' {{small|(Müll. Arg.) C.W.Dodge (1971)}} *''Huea coralligera'' {{small|(Hue) C.W.Dodge & G.E.Baker (1938)}} *''Huea cretacea'' {{small|(Müll.Arg.) C.W.Dodge (1971)}} *''Huea diphyella'' {{small|(Nyl.) C.W.Dodge (1948)}} *''Huea flava'' {{small|C.W.Dodge & G.E.Baker (1938)}} *''Huea grisea'' {{small|(Vain.) I.M.Lamb (1968)}} *''Huea imponens'' {{small|(Stizenb.) C.W.Dodge (1971)}} *''Huea lactescens'' {{small|(Leight.) C.W.Dodge (1971)}} *''Huea leptospora'' {{small|(Zahlbr.) C.W.Dodge (1971)}} *''Huea maurula'' {{small|(Müll.Arg.) C.W.Dodge (1971)}} *''Huea obliquans'' {{small|(Nyl.) C.W.Dodge (1971)}} *''Huea polioterodes'' {{small|(J.Steiner) C.W.Dodge (1971)}} *''Huea punicae'' {{small|(Vain.) C.W.Dodge (1971)}} *''Huea sedutrix'' {{small|(Stizenb.) C.W.Dodge (1971)}} *''Huea smaragdula'' {{small|C.W.Dodge (1948)}} *''Huea sorediata'' {{small|Øvstedal (2001)}} *''Huea stuhlmannii'' {{small|(Müll.Arg.) C.W.Dodge (1971)}} *''Huea suspicax'' {{small|(Stizenb.) C.W.Dodge (1971)}} *''Huea variabilis'' {{small|(Müll.Arg.) C.W.Dodge (1971)}}

==References== {{Reflist|refs=

<ref name="Dodge & Baker 1938">{{cite journal |last1=Dodge |first1=C.W. |last2=Baker |first2=G.E. |year=1938 |title=Botany of the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition II. Lichens and lichen parasites |journal=Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden |volume=25 |pages=515–727 (see p.&nbsp;617)|doi=10.2307/2394232 |jstor=2394232 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/27679 }}</ref>

<ref name="May & Lendemer 2023">{{cite journal |last1=May |first1=Tom C. |last2=Lendemer |first2=James C. |year=2023 |title=Report of the Nomenclature Committee for Fungi: 22 |journal=Taxon |volume=72 |issue=6 |pages=1356–1363 |doi=10.1002/tax.13099 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

<ref name="Wijayawardene et al. 2020">{{cite journal |display-authors=6 |last1=Wijayawardene |first1=Nalin |last2=Hyde |first2=Kevin |first3=LKT |last3=Al-Ani |first4=S |last4=Dolatabadi |last5=Stadler |first5=Marc |last6=Haelewaters |first6=Danny |last7=Tsurykau |first7=Andrei |last8=Mesic |first8=Armin |last9=Navathe |first9=Sudhir |last10=Papp |first10=Viktor |last11=Oliveira Fiuza |first11=Patrícia |last12=Vázquez |first12=Víctor |last13=Gautam |first13=Ajay |last14=Becerra |first14=Alejandra G. |last15=Ekanayaka |first15=Anusha |last16=K. C. |first16=Rajeshkumar |last17=Bezerra |first17=Jadson |last18=Matočec |first18=Neven |last19=Maharachchikumbura |first19=Sajeewa |last20=Suetrong |first20=Satinee |year=2020 |title=Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa |journal=Mycosphere |volume=11 |pages=1060–1456 |doi=10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8 |doi-access=free |hdl=10481/61998 |hdl-access=free}}</ref>

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Category:Lecanorales Category:Lichen genera Category:Lecanorales genera Category:Taxa described in 1938 Category:Taxa named by Carroll William Dodge