Feigeana

Feigeana is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Roccellaceae.[1] A monotypic genus, it contains the single species Feigeana socotrana, first reported from Yemen in 1995.[2]

Feigeana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Arthoniomycetes
Order: Arthoniales
Family: Roccellaceae
Genus: Feigeana
Mies, Lumbsch & Tehler (1995)
Type species
Feigeana socotrana
Mies, Lumbsch & Tehler (1995)

The genus name of Feigeana is in honour of Guido Benno Feige (1937 - 2007), a German botanist (Lichenology and Mycology) and also Professor of Botany in Essen. He also established the Botanical Garden of the University of Duisburg-Essen.[3]

The genus was circumscribed by Bruno A. Mies, Helge Thorsten Lumbsch and Anders Gunnar Tehler in Mycotaxon Vol.54 on page 156 in 1995.

References

  1. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany. 13: 1–58. Archived from the original on March 18, 2009.
  2. Mies B, Lumbsch T, Tehler A (1995). "Feigeana socotrana, a new genus and species from Socotra, Yemen (Roccellaceae; Euascomycetidae)". Mycotaxon. 54: 155–162.
  3. 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. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.


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