Orvo Vitikainen

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Orvo Vitikainen (born 11 October 1940 in Taipalsaari) [1] is a Finnish lichenologist. He entered the University of Helsinki in 1961, from where he obtained a Candidate of Philosophy degree in 1966, and a Licentiate of Philosophy in 1971. He later earned a Ph.D. from this institution in 1994, under the supervision of Teuvo Ahti. Between the years 1961 and 1981 he was a junior curator of cryptogams at the University of Helsinki Botanical Garden, and then from 1983 to 2004 he was the head of the lichen herbarium. [2] Here he managed the internationally valuable collections of the early lichenologists Erik Acharius and William Nylander. He has collected thousands of specimens for the herbarium from various locations in Finland, but also internationally, including Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Russian Karelia, Scotland, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Montenegro, Tanzania, Kenya, British Columbia, and Brazil. [1] In 1992–1994, he was a scientist of the Finnish Academy in the Ahti research group. [2]

Vitikainen is an expert on the lichen flora of Finland and northwest Europe, and also a specialist on the lichen genus Peltigera . He contributed chapters on the families Peltigeraceae and Nephromataceae for the popular 2007 work Nordic Lichen Flora. [2] He is also interested in the history of lichenology and has published several papers in this area. [1] Vitikainen is honoured in the names of the lichens Atla vitikainenii , [2] Nephroma orvoi , [3] and Verrucaria vitikainenii . [4] He is described by his colleagues as "a modest, patient, friendly and industrious colleague", and "an important joint in the great chain of lichenological tradition in Finland". [1]

The standard author abbreviation Vitik. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [5]

Selected works

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Verrucaria vitikainenii is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling) crustose lichen in the family Verrucariaceae. It is found in Finland, where it occurs on calcareous rock outcrops.

Verrucaria oulankaensis is a rare species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling) crustose lichen in the family Verrucariaceae. It is found in north-eastern Finland, where it occurs on calcareous rocks on river shores.

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Schaereria serenior is a species of saxicolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Schaereriaceae. Found in Finland, it was first formally described as a new species by the Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio, who classified it as a variety of the species Lecidea tenebrosa. Auguste-Marie Hue promoted it to distinct species status in 1913 as Lecidea serenior. Alexander Zahlbruckner proposed to transfer it to the genus Caloplaca in 1931. Most recently, Orvo Vitikainen transferred it to Schaereria in 2004, a few years after that genus had been resurrected from a long period of disuse. It is one of two species of Schaereria found in Finland; the other is S. parasemella.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Myllys, Leena; Stenroos, Soili; Ahti, Teuvo (2020). "Orvo Vitikainen, an 80th birthday tribute" (PDF). Graphis Scripta. 32 (4): 63–65.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Hertel, Hannes; Gärtner, Georg; Lőkös, László (2017). "Forscher an Österreichs Flechtenflora" [Investigators of Austria's lichen flora](PDF). Stapfia (in German). 104 (2): 158–159.
  3. ↑ Timdal, E.; Westberg, M.; R., Haugan; T.H., Hofton; H., Holien; J.D.M., Speed; T., Tønsberg; M., Bendiksby (2020). "Integrative taxonomy reveals a new species, Nephroma orvoi, in the N. parile species complex (lichenized Ascomycota)" (PDF). Graphis Scripta. 32 (4): 70–85. ISSN   2002-4495.
  4. ↑ Pykälä, Juha; Launis, Annina; Myllys, Leena (2017). "Verrucaria ahtii, V. oulankaensis and V. vitikainenii, three new species from the Endocarpon group (Verrucariaceae, lichenized Ascomycota)". The Lichenologist. 49 (2): 107–116. doi:10.1017/s0024282916000694. S2CID   89949641.
  5. ↑ International Plant Names Index.  Vitik.
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