Alan W. Archer (born 1930) is a mycologist and taxonomist. He is currently (January 2021) an honorary

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. He uses

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as well as morphological features in taxonomy and to devise keys, most recently for the genus ''

Pertusaria ''Pertusaria'' is a large genus of warty crustose lichen, crustose lichens in the Pertusariaceae family.Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, The fruiting bodies are usually modified apothecia that im ...

'' in the Australasia region. During his career he has characterised and revised over 100 fungal taxa. He is an authority on the family

Graphidaceae The Graphidaceae are a family of lichen-forming fungi in the order Graphidales. The family contains nearly a hundred genera and more than 2000 species. Although the family has a cosmopolitan distribution, most Graphidaceae species occur in tropic ...

from the Australia - Pacific region and characterised '' Carbacanthographis salazinica'' and '' Phaeographis salazinica''. He was also the first to characterise several members of the genus ''

'', '' Pertusaria ambigua'' '' Pertusaria epacrospora'', '' Pertusaria guineabissauensis'', '' Pertusaria salazinica'', ''

Pertusaria sipmanii ''Pertusaria'' is a large genus of warty crustose lichens in the Pertusariaceae family.Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, The fruiting bodies are usually modified apothecia that immersed in warts o ...

'' and . An advanced search of the

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database shows that he has authored some 101 fungi taxa, including ''

Pertusaria xylophyes ''Pertusaria'' is a large genus of warty crustose lichens in the Pertusariaceae family.Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, The fruiting bodies are usually modified apothecia that immersed in warts o ...

''.'''' (See also

Taxa named by Alan W. Archer In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; : taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular name and ...

.) The standard author abbreviation A.W.Archer is used to indicate this person as the author when

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botanical name A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the ''International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants'' (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or cultivar group, Group epithets must conform t ...

Some publications

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Archer, Alan W. 1930 births Living people 20th-century Australian botanists Australian lichenologists Australian mycologists Australian taxonomists