Berkleasmium

Berkleasmium
Berkleasmium concinnum
Scientific classification Edit this 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.

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

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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.