Skyttea

Skyttea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Leotiomycetes
Order:	Cyttariales
Family:	Cordieritidaceae
Genus:	Skyttea; Sherwood, D.Hawksw. & Coppins (1981)
Type species
	Skyttea nitschkei; (Körb.) Sherwood, D.Hawksw. & Coppins (1981)

Skyttea is a genus of lichenicolous fungi in the family Cordieritidaceae.[1] The genus was circumscribed in 1981 by lichenologists Martha Allen Sherwood, David L. Hawksworth, and Brian J. Coppins, with Skyttea nitschkei assigned as the type species.[2]

The genus name of Skyttea is in honour of Mogens Skytte Christiansen (1918 - 1996), a Danish botanist (interested in Microbiology, Mycology an Lichenology), and also a botanical illustrator.[3]

Species

Skyttea anziae Etayo & Diederich (2002)
Skyttea arenicola Alstrup & E.S.Hansen (2001)
Skyttea buelliae Sherwood, D.Hawksw. & Coppins (1981)
Skyttea bumyoungsungii S.Y.Kondr. & Hur (2018)
Skyttea caesii Diederich & Etayo (2000)
Skyttea carboneae Diederich & Etayo (2000)
Skyttea cismonicae Hafellner (2000)
Skyttea dacampiae Zhurb. (2007)
Skyttea elachistophora (Nyl.) Sherwood & D.Hawksw. (1981)
Skyttea fusispora Sherwood, D.Hawksw. & Coppins (1981)
Skyttea gossypina Etayo (2010)
Skyttea graphidicola Diederich, Common & Suija (2019)
Skyttea gregaria Sherwood, D.Hawksw. & Coppins (1981)
Skyttea hawksworthii Diederich (1986)
Skyttea heterochroae Nav.-Ros. & D.Muñiz (2009)
Skyttea insignis Driscoll, S.R.Clayden & R.C.Harris (2016)
Skyttea lecanorae Diederich & Etayo (2000)
Skyttea mayrhoferi Diederich & Etayo (2000)
Skyttea megalosporae Etayo & Diederich (1998)
Skyttea nitschkei (Körb.) Sherwood, D.Hawksw. & Coppins (1981)
Skyttea ochrolechiae Zhurb. (2015)
Skyttea pertusariicola Diederich & Etayo (2004)
Skyttea pyrenulae Diederich, Etayo & Coppins (2000)
Skyttea radiatilis (Tuck.) R.Sant., Etayo & Diederich (2000)
Skyttea recognita Etayo & Diederich (2017)
Skyttea richardsonii Iturr. & D.Hawksw. (2004)
Skyttea spinosa D.Hawksw. & Coppins (1982)
Skyttea tavaresae R.Sant., Etayo & Diederich (2000)
Skyttea thelotrematis Diederich & Etayo (2000)
Skyttea violacea Etayo (2008)
Skyttea viridis D.Hawksw. & Coppins (1982)

References

Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8.
Sherwood, M.A.; Hawksworth, D.L.; Coppins, B.J. (1980). "Skyttea, a new genus of odontotremoid lichenicolous fungi". Transactions of the British Mycological Society. 75 (3): 479–490. doi:10.1016/S0007-1536(80)80130-6.
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.

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[Wijayawardene_et_al._2020-1] Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8.

[Sherwood_et_al._1980-2] Sherwood, M.A.; Hawksworth, D.L.; Coppins, B.J. (1980). "Skyttea, a new genus of odontotremoid lichenicolous fungi". Transactions of the British Mycological Society. 75 (3): 479–490. doi:10.1016/S0007-1536(80)80130-6.

[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.