Kurokawia Runcinata
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Kurokawia Runcinata
''Kurokawia'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Physciaceae. It has seven species of foliose lichens. The genus, circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed in 2021, has ''Kurokawia isidiata'' as the type species. Taxonomy The lichen genus ''Kurokawia'' was named in honour of Japanese lichenologist Syo Kurokawa (1926–2010), who authored a world monograph on the genus ''Anaptychia''. The genus is distinct from ''Anaptychia'', despite certain resemblances, primarily in its upper layer. The type species of ''Kurokawia'' is ''Kurokawia isidiata''. A total of six species were initially acknowledged members of the genus based on combined phylogenetic analyses. An additional species was transferred to ''Kurokawia'' from ''Anaptychia'' in 2022. Description ''Kurokawia'' is discernible by its foliose lichen, foliose (leafy) thallus which is closely affixed to the . When dry, the upper surface has hues ranging from light to dark brown but transitions to a dull olive gre ...
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Mikhail Piatrovich Tomin
Mikhail Piatrovich Tomin (25 July 1883 – 30 May 1967) was a Russian and Soviet lichenologist. Life and career Mikhail Piatrovich Tomin was born on July 25, 1883, in the village of Sharovichi, Kaluga Governorate. He studied at the Moscow Agricultural Institute, from which he graduated in 1912. Until 1929, Tomin worked at the Voronezh Agricultural Institute (first as a laboratory assistant, then as an assistant to Boris Aleksandrovich Keller), after which he moved to Arkhangelsk, becoming head of the department of botany at the Forestry Engineering Institute. From 1931 to 1934 M.P. Tomin was a professor at the Orenburg Institute of Large Beef Cattle Breeding and Veterinary Medicine. In 1937, Tomin received his doctorate in biological sciences. Until 1941 he taught at the Belarusian State University. He was a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus since 1940. After the end of the Great Patriotic War (term), Great Patriotic War, Tomin continued to work ...
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