Rostafinskia

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Rostafinskia
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: incertae sedis
Order: incertae sedis
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Rostafinskia
Speg. 1880 [1]
Type species
Rostafinskia australis
Speg. 1880
Species

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]

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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.

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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. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 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)