Mobergia

Mobergia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Physciaceae.[1]

Mobergia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Caliciales
Family: Physciaceae
Genus: Mobergia
H.Mayrhofer, Sheard & Matzer (1992)
Type species
Mobergia calculiformis
(W.A.Weber) H.Mayrhofer & Sheard (1992)

The genus name of Mobergia is in honour of Jan Roland Moberg (b.1939), a Swedish botanist (Mycology and Lichenology) and at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University.[2]

The genus was circumscribed by Helmut Mayrhofer and John Wilson Sheard in Bryologist vol.95 on page 438 in 1992.

References

  1. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota 2007". Myconet. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany. 13: 1–58.
  2. 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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