Holtermannia

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Holtermannia
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Tremellomycetes
Order: Holtermanniales
Genus: Holtermannia
Sacc. & Traverso (1910)
Type species
Holtermannia pinguis
(Holterm.) Sacc. & Traverso

Holtermannia is a genus of fungi in the order Holtermanniales. Species produce groups of horn-like gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) on wood and have associated yeast states. The genus is distributed in southeast Asia and Brazil, and contains six species. [1]

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The genus name of Holtermannia is in honour of Carl Holtermann (1866 - 1923) (Norwegian-)German botanist (Mycology) and Professor of Botany at the University of Berlin. [2]

The genus was circumscribed by Pier Andrea Saccardo and Giovanni Battista Traverso in Syll. Fung. vol.19 on page 871 in 1910.

Species known

According to GBIF; [3]

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References

  1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p.  319. ISBN   978-0-85199-826-8.
  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 . Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  3. "Holtermannia Sacc. & Traverso, 1910". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 9 April 2022.