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Curreya Conorum
''Curreya'' is a genus of fungi in the family Cucurbitariaceae. The genus name of ''Curreya'' is in honour of Frederick Currey (mycologist), Frederick Currey (1819–1881), a British botanist and Secretary of the Linnean Society of London, Linnean Society between 1860 – 1880. The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by Pier Andrea Saccardo in Syll. Fung. Vol.2 on page 651 in 1883. Species As accepted by Species Fungorum; *''Curreya conorum'' *''Curreya corni'' *''Curreya insignis'' *''Curreya peckiana'' *''Curreya pithyophila'' *''Curreya rhoina'' Former species; * ''C. acaciae'' = ''Magnibotryascoma acaciae'', Teichosporaceae * ''C. austroafricana'' = ''Teichospora austroafricana'', Teichosporaceae * ''C. bambusicola'' = ''Epibotrys bambusicola'', Dothideomycetes * ''C. berberidis'' = ''Dictyodothis berberidis'', Dothideaceae * ''C. excavata'' = ''Dictyodothis excavata'', Dothideaceae * ''C. flotoviana'' = ''Mycoporum flotovianum'', Mycoporaceae * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pier Andrea Saccardo
Pier Andrea Saccardo (23 April 1845 in Treviso, Province of Treviso, Treviso – 12 February 1920 in Padua, Italy, Padua) was an Italian botany, botanist and mycology, mycologist. His multi-volume ''Sylloge Fungorum'' was one of the first attempts to produce a comprehensive list of identified fungi, using their spore-bearing structures for classification. He was elected to the Linnean Society of London, Linnean Society in 1916 as a foreign member. He also authored a color classification system that he called ''Chromotaxia'' and contributed to the Italian translation of Charles Darwin's Insectivorous Plants. Life Saccardo was born in the wine growing region of Selva di Montello to Elena Vidotto and engineer Francesco di Selva. He studied at gymnasium of the Venice seminary, the Lyceum in Venice, and then at the Technical Institute of the University of Padua from 1864. At the age of fourteen, he had already put together a herbarium and had made collections of the insects of Trevis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |