''Lanzia'' is a
genus
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of
fungi
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within the family
Rutstroemiaceae
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.
The genus name of ''Lanzia'' is in honour of Matteo Lanzi (1824-1908), who was an Italian doctor, botanist (Mycology and Algology) and
diatom
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researcher. He worked as a lecturer at the
University in Rome.
The genus was
circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle.
* Circum ...
by
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 attempt ...
in Bot. Centralbl. vol.18 on pages 218 and 306 in 1884.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus ''Lanzia'':
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Lanzia allantospora''
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Lanzia antarctica''
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Lanzia australis''
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Lanzia blumenaviensis''
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Lanzia cantareirensis''
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Lanzia caryopsicola''
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Lanzia castanopsidis''
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Lanzia coracina''
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Lanzia cuniculi''
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Lanzia eburnea''
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Lanzia equiseti''
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Lanzia fibrilosa''
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Lanzia flavoaurantia''
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Lanzia flavorufa''
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Lanzia glenii''
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Lanzia guangxiensis''
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Lanzia helotioides''
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Lanzia huangshanica''
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Lanzia kosciuszkoensis''
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Lanzia longipes''
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Lanzia luteovirescens''
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Lanzia minuta''
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Lanzia moniliformae''
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Lanzia novae-zelandiae''
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Lanzia ovispora''
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Lanzia parasitica''
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Lanzia pteridiicola''
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Lanzia reticulata''
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Lanzia sinensis''
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Lanzia stellariae''
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Lanzia thindii''
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Lanzia ulmariae''
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Lanzia velutinosa''
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Lanzia viburni''
References
External links
Index Fungorum
Helotiales
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