Berkleasmium

Berkleasmium
Berkleasmium concinnum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Tubeufiales
Family:	Tubeufiaceae
Genus:	Berkleasmium Zobel, 1854

Berkleasmium is a genus of fungi belonging to the family Dematiaceae .

The genus name of Berkleasmium is in honour of 2 people (Berkley and Lea), Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803 - 1889), an English cryptogamist and clergyman, and one of the founders of the science of plant pathology and also Thomas Gibson Lea (1785–1844), who was an American botanist. ^[1]

The genus was circumscribed by Johann Baptista Zobel in Icon. (Corda) vol.6 n page 4 in 1854.

Species

• Berkleasmium crunisia
• Berkleasmium micronesicum
• Berkleasmium nigroapicale
• Berkleasmium phyllostachydis
• Berkleasmium sp. BCC 17003
• Berkleasmium sp. BCC 17023
• Berkleasmium sp. BCC 17024
• Berkleasmium sp. Dzf12
• Berkleasmium typhae

References

1. 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.