Rostafinskia

Rostafinskia is a genus of fungi in the Ascomycota phylum. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the phylum is unknown (incertae sedis), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any class, order, or family.[2]

Rostafinskia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Ascomycota
Class:
Incertae sedis
Order:
Incertae sedis
Family:
Incertae sedis
Genus:
Rostafinskia

Type species
Rostafinskia australis
Speg. 1880
Species
  • Rostafinskia australis Speg. 1880

The genus name of Rostafinskia is in honour of Józef Tomasz Rostafínsky (1850–1928), who was a Polish botanist (Algology and Mycology), and Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Garden at Jagiellonian University in Kraków between 1873 - 1912.[3]

Note: Rostafinskia elegans Racib. 1884[4] is a name brought to synonymy to Collaria elegans (Racib.) Dhillon & Nann.-Bremek. ex Ing, 1982.

See also

References
  1. Speg. (as Rostafinsckia), Anal. Soc. cient. argent. 10(5-6): 151 (1880)
  2. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany. 13: 1–58.
  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. Racib., Rozpr. Spraw. Posiedzeń Wydz. Mat.-Przyr. Akad. Umiejetn. 12: 78 (1884)


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