Stirtonia (lichen)

Stirtonia is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Arthoniaceae. It has at least 21 species.

The genus was circumscribed by Annie Lorrain Smith in Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. vol.11 on page 195 in 1926.

The genus name of Stirtonia is in honour of James Stirton (1833–), who was a Scottish physician and one of Scotland's leading experts on cryptogamic botany. His investigations in bryology and lichenology earned him a world-wide reputation.

Species
, Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 22 species of Stirtonia:


 * Stirtonia borinquensis
 * Stirtonia byssoidea
 * Stirtonia caribaea
 * Stirtonia coei
 * Stirtonia curvata
 * Stirtonia epiphylla
 * Stirtonia ghattensis
 * Stirtonia ibirapuitensis
 * Stirtonia isidiata
 * Stirtonia latispora
 * Stirtonia lucida
 * Stirtonia microspora
 * Stirtonia neotropica
 * Stirtonia nitida
 * Stirtonia nivea
 * Stirtonia obvallata
 * Stirtonia ochracea
 * Stirtonia psoromica
 * Stirtonia punctiformis
 * Stirtonia rhizophorae
 * Stirtonia schummii
 * Stirtonia viridis