Karsteniomyces

Karsteniomyces is a genus of lichenicolous fungi of unknown familial, ordinal, and class placement in the Ascomycota.[1] The genus was circumscribed by David Leslie Hawksworth in 1980.[2] The species of this genus are found in Europe.[1]

Karsteniomyces
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: incertae sedis
Genus: Karsteniomyces
D.Hawksw. (1980)
Species[1]

K. llimonae
K. peltigerae
K. tuberculosus

The genus name of Karsteniomyces is in honour of Petter Adolf Karsten (1834–1917), who was a Finnish born mycologist.[3]

The genus was circumscribed by David Leslie Hawksworth in Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) vol.9 (Issue 1) on page 22 in 1981.

Species known;.[1]

  • Karsteniomyces llimonae Boqueras & Diederich (1993)[4]
  • Karsteniomyces peltigerae (P.Karst.) D.Hawksw. (1980)
  • Karsteniomyces tuberculosus Alstrup & D.Hawksw. (1990)[5] – Greenland

References
  1. "Karsteniomyces". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  2. Hawksworth, D.L. (1980). "Notes on some fungi occurring on Peltigera, with a key to accepted species". Transactions of the British Mycological Society. 74 (2): 363–386.
  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. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  4. Boqueras, M.; Diederich, P. (1993). "New or interesting lichenicolous fungi. 3. Karsteniomyces llimonae sp. nov. and Sclerococcum serusiauxii sp. nov. (Deuteromycotina)". Mycotaxon. 47: 425–431.
  5. Alstrup, V.; Hawksworth, D.L. (1990). "The lichenicolous fungi of Greenland". Meddelelser om Grønland Biosciences. 31: 1–90.


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