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Pyrrhospora Gowardiana
''Pyrrhospora'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Lecanoraceae. The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber in 1855, with ''Pyrrhospora quernea'' assigned as the type species. Species *''Pyrrhospora bhutanensis'' *''Pyrrhospora chlororphnia'' *''Pyrrhospora endaurantia'' *''Pyrrhospora fuscisidiata'' *''Pyrrhospora luminescens'' *''Pyrrhospora palmicola'' – Seychelles *''Pyrrhospora quernea'' *''Pyrrhospora rubiginans'' Several species that were once classified in ''Pyrrhospora'' have since been transferred to the genus ''Ramboldia''. These include: *''Pyrrhospora amagiensis'' (now ''Ramboldia amagiensis'') *''Pyrrhospora arandensis'' (now ''Ramboldia arandensis'') *''Pyrrhospora aurantiaca'' (now ''Ramboldia aurantiaca'') *''Pyrrhospora aurea'' (now ''Ramboldia aurea'') *''Pyrrhospora bullata'' (now ''Ramboldia bullata'') *''Pyrrhospora cinnabarina'' (now ''Ramboldia cinnabarina'') *''Pyrr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Wilhelm Körber
Gustav Wilhelm Körber (10 January 1817, Jelenia Góra, Hirschberg – 27 January 1885, Breslau) was a Silesian-German lichenologist and a professor at the University of Wrocław, University of Breslau. He specialized in the flora of Central Europe. Biography Körber was born in Hirschberg, Jelenia Góra, Silesia where his father was a high school director. He received his early education from the local high school. From 1835 studied natural sciences in Breslau and Berlin in 1838, obtaining his Doctor of Philosophy, PhD in 1839 with the thesis ''De gonidiis lichenum''. His teachers at Breslau included Heinrich Göppert, Heinrich Robert Göppert (1800-1884) and Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776-1858). At Berlin his influences included Franz Meyen, Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen (1804-1840) and the chemist Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794-1863). After graduation, he served as an instructor at the "Elisabethanum" in Breslau, and from 1862, worked as a private teacher. In 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
