Minksia

Minksia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi of uncertain familial placement in the order Arthoniales.^[2] The genus was circumscribed by Swiss lichenologist Johannes Müller Argoviensis in 1882 with Minksia caesiella assigned as the type species.^[3]

Minksia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Arthoniomycetes
Order:	Arthoniales
Genus:	Minksia Müll.Arg. (1882)
Type species
Minksia caesiella Müll.Arg. (1882)
Species
M. alba M. caesiella M. candida M. irregularis M. saxicola
Synonyms[1]
Cyrtographa Müll.Arg. (1894)

The genus name of Minksia is in honour of Arthur Minks (1846-1908), who was a German doctor and botanist (Mycology and Lichenology), who worked in Stettin..^[4]

Species

• Minksia alba Makhija & Patw. (1988)^[5] – India
• Minksia caesiella Müll.Arg. (1882)
• Minksia candida Müll.Arg. (1882)
• Minksia irregularis (Müll.Arg.) Müll.Arg. (1895)
• Minksia saxicola J.Hedrick (1942)

Minksia angolensis (Nyl.) Makhija & Patw. is now known as Tremotylium angolense.

Minksia chilena (C.W.Dodge) Redón & Follmann (1972) is now Carbacanthographis chilensis (family Graphidaceae).^[6]