''Spirographa ciliata'' is a species of
lichenicolous fungus in the family
Spirographaceae
''Spirographa'' is a genus of parasitic fungi. It is the sole genus in the monotypic family Spirographaceae, belong to the order Ostropales. The genus was circumscribed by Alexander Zahlbruckner in 1903, with '' Spirographa spiralis'' later assi ...
. It was first
formally described by
Klaus Kalb
Klaus Kalb (born 1942) is a German lichenologist and an authority on tropical lichens.
Biography
Klaus Kalb was born in Nuremberg in 1942 and grew up in southern Bavaria. From 1960 to 1965 he studied biology, chemistry, and geography at t ...
in 1993 as ''Cornutispora ciliata''.
Adam Grzegorz Flakus, Javier Etayo, and Jolanta MiÄ…dlikowska transferred it to genus ''
Spirographa
''Spirographa'' is a genus of parasitic fungi. It is the sole genus in the monotypic family Spirographaceae, belong to the order Ostropales. The genus was circumscribed by Alexander Zahlbruckner in 1903, with '' Spirographa spiralis'' later assig ...
'' in 2019.
References
Ostropales
Fungi described in 1993
lichenicolous fungi
Taxa named by Klaus Kalb
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