Skvortzovia
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Genus: | Skvortzovia Bononi & Hjortstam (1987)
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Skvortzovia furfurella (Bres.) Bononi & Hjortstam (1987)
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Skvortzovia is a fungal genus of unknown placement in the class Agaricomycetes. It is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Skvortzovia furfurella, found in the United States. This crust fungus was originally described by Italian mycologist Giacomo Bresadola in 1925 as Odontia furfurella.[1] Vera Lúcia Bononi and Kurt Hjortstam circumscribed Skvortzovia in Mycotaxon vol.28 on page 12 in 1987 to contain the species.
The genus name honours botanist Boris Skvortzov (1896–1980), who was a Polish-Russian-Brazilian botanist (Algology and Mycology) and collected crust fungi extensively in Brazil.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Bresadola, G. (1925). "New species of fungi". Mycologia. 17 (2): 68–77. doi:10.2307/3753834.
- ^ Hjortstam, Kurt; Bononi, Vera Lucia Ramos (1987). "A contribution to the knowledge of Corticiaceae s.l. (Aphyllophorales) in Brazil". Mycotaxon. 28 (1): 1–15.