Karstenia is a genus of fungi in the order Rhytismatales. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the order is unknown (incertae sedis), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any family.[2]
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| Genus: | Karstenia Fr. (1885)
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| Karstenia sorbina (P.Karst.) P.Karst. (1885)
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The genus name of Karstenia is in honour of Petter Adolf Karsten (1834–1917), who was a Finnish born mycologist.[3]
The genus was circumscribed by Elias Magnus Fries in Acta Soc. Fauna Fl. Fenn. vol.2 (issue 6) on page 166 in 1885.
Species
edit- Karstenia clematidis (W.Phillips) Sherwood 1980 – Great Britain
- Karstenia corticoides (Pat.) Sherwood 1977
- Karstenia gregaria Graddon 1986 – Great Britain
- Karstenia idaei (Fuckel) Sherwood 1977
- Karstenia inconspicua Wilberf. 1999
- Karstenia lonicerae (Velen.) Sherwood 1977
- Karstenia macer (P.Karst.) Sherwood 1980
- Karstenia maydis (Rehm) Sherwood 1980
- Karstenia rubicola (Ellis & Dearn.) Sherwood 1980
- Karstenia sorbina (P.Karst.) P.Karst. 1885
References
edit- ^ "Synonymy: Karstenia Fr". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58. Archived from the original on March 18, 2009.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.