Heppsora

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

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| taxon = Heppsora

| authority = D.D. Awasthi & Kr.P. Singh

| type_species = Heppsora indica

| type_species_authority = D.D. Awasthi & Kr.P. Singh

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| subdivision = H. bullata

H. indica{{cite web |title=Heppsora D.D.Awasthi & K.P.Singh, 1977 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/7247036 |website=www.gbif.org |language=en}}

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Heppsora is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Ramalinaceae.{{cite journal|last=Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. |date=December 2007 |title=Outline of Ascomycota – 2007 |journal=Myconet |volume=13 |pages=1–58 |url=http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |publisher=The Field Museum, Department of Botany |location=Chicago, USA |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |archivedate=2009-03-18 }}

The genus name of Heppsora is in honour of Johann Adam Philipp Hepp (1797–1867), a German physician and lichenologist.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 | s2cid=246307410 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}

The genus was circumscribed by Dharani Dhar Awasthi and Krishna Pal Singh in Bryologist vol.80 on page 537 in 1977.