Halegrapha

Halegrapha is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Graphidaceae. It has nine species.^[1] The genus was circumscribed in 2011 by Eimy Rivas Plata and Robert Lücking, with Halegrapha chimaera assigned as the type species. The generic name honors American lichenologist Mason Hale.^[2]

Halegrapha
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Graphidales
Family:	Graphidaceae
Genus:	Halegrapha Rivas Plata & Lücking (2011)
Type species
Halegrapha chimaera Rivas Plata & Lücking (2011)

Halegrapha species generally resemble those in the script lichen genus Graphis, but are distinguished by having a hymenium and ascospores similar to those of genus Phaeographis.^[2]

Species

• Halegrapha chimaera Rivas Plata & Lücking (2011) – Philippines
• Halegrapha floridana Common & Lücking (2011) – Florida
• Halegrapha intergrapha Hale ex Lücking (2011) – Malaysia
• Halegrapha kenyana Kalb & Lücking (2011 – Kenya
• Halegrapha masoniana Weerakoon, Lücking & Lumbsch (2014)^[3] – Sri Lanka
• Halegrapha mexicana A.B.Peña & Lücking (2011) – Mexico
• Halegrapha mucronata (Stirt.) Lücking (2011) – Australia
• Halegrapha paulseniana Luch & Lücking (2018)^[4] – Hawaii
• Halegrapha yakushimensis M.Nakan., Kashiw. & K.H.Moon (2014)^[5] – Japan