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Lindquistomyces

Lindquistomyces is a fungal genus in the family Amphisphaeriaceae. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Lindquistomyces antarcticus. This species was originally described as Ophiobolus antarcticus by Carlos Luigi Spegazzini in 1887.

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Length
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Lindquistomyces
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Amphisphaeriales
Family: Amphisphaeriaceae
Genus: Lindquistomyces
Aramb., E.Müll. & Gamundí (1982)
Species:
L. antarcticus
Binomial name
Lindquistomyces antarcticus
(Speg.) Aramb., E.Müll. & Gamundí (1982)
Synonyms1

Species synonymy

  • Ophiobolus antarcticus Speg. (1888)

Lindquistomyces is a fungal genus in the family Amphisphaeriaceae.2 This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Lindquistomyces antarcticus.3 This species was originally described as Ophiobolus antarcticus by Carlos Luigi Spegazzini in 1887.4

The genus name of Lindquistomyces is in honour of Juan Carlos Lindquist (1899-1990), who was an Argentine agricultural engineer and botanist (Mycology), plantpathologist and specialist in uredinales (rust fungi) and Professor at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata.5

The genus was circumscribed by Angélica Margarita Arambarri, Emil Müller and Irma Josefa Gamundí de Amos in Sydowia vol.35 on page 6 in 1982.

References

References

  1. Lindquistomyces antarcticus in MycoBank.
  2. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58. Archived from the original on 2009-03-18.
  3. Arambarri AM, Gamundí IJ, Müller E (1982). "Lindquistomyces: un nuevo genero de Amphisphaeriaceae (Sphaeriales)" (PDF). Sydowia (in Spanish). 35: 6–9.
  4. Spegazzini C. (1888). "Fungi Fuegiani". Boletín de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Córdoba (in Spanish). 11 (2): 135–311 (see p. 232).
  5. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.