Menegazzia

Translingual

Menegazzia terebrata.

Etymology

Named by Abramo Massalongo after his friend, Luigi Menegazzi. Therefore, Italian Menegazzi +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• English: (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛ.nɛˈɡɑt.si.ə/, /ˌmɛ.nəˈɡɑt.si.ə/

Proper noun

Menegazzia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Parmeliaceae – certain lichens.
   • 2020 December 14, Felix Grewe, Claudio Ametrano, Todd J. Widhelm, Steven Leavitt, Isabel Distefano, Wetchasart Polyiam, David Pizarro, Mats Wedin, Ana Crespo, Pradeep K. Divakar, H. Thorsten Lumbsch, “Using target enrichment sequencing to study the higher-level phylogeny of the largest lichen-forming fungi family: Parmeliaceae (Ascomycota)”, in IMA Fungus‎^[1]:

     The coalescent-based ASTRAL-III tree conflicted in one node altering the placement of the Coelopogon/Menegazzia clade (Fig. 2, Supplementary Figure 2).

   • 2022 June 3, Edit Farkas, Nóra Varga, Katalin Veres, Gábor Matus, Mónika Sinigla, László Lőkös, “Distribution Types of Lichens in Hungary That Indicate Changing Environmental Conditions”, in Journal of Fungi‎^[2]:

     Species of decreasing occurrences (Section 3.1) belonging to this group (e.g., Lobaria pulmonaria, Menegazzia terebrata—Figure 1 and Figure S1) were considerably or moderately frequent before the period with strong acidic air pollution (caused by SO₂ pollution from traditional heating in households, from industry and from coal heated power stations).

   • 2024 January 29, Zichen He, Takeshi Naganuma, Haemish I. A. S. Melville, “Bacteriomic Profiles of Rock-Dwelling Lichens from the Venezuelan Guiana Shield and the South African Highveld Plateau”, in Microorganisms‎^[3]:

     This study compares the diversity and possible metabolism of lichen-associated bacteria from saxicolous foliose and fruticose taxa Alectoria, Canoparmelia, Crocodia, Menegazzia, Usnea, and Xanthoparmelia from the Venezuelan Guiana Shield and the South African Highveld Plateau.

Descendants

• → Belarusian: менега́цыя (mjenjehácyja)
• → Russian: менега́цция (menegáccija)
• → Ukrainian: менега́ція (menehácija)

See also

• Menegazzia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Menegazzia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Menegazzia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons