Montagnula

Montagnula is a genus of fungi in the family Montagnulaceae.[1] The genus, circumscribed by mycologist Augusto Napoleone Berlese in 1896,[2] contains an estimated 24 species, but is probably polyphyletic as currently circumscribed.[3]

Montagnula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Ascomycota
Class:
Dothideomycetes
Order:
Pleosporales
Family:
Montagnulaceae
Genus:
Montagnula

Berl. (1896)
Type species
Montagnula infernalis
(Niessl) Berl. (1896)
Species

M. anthostomoides
M. dura
M. infernalis
M. melanorhabdos
M. opulenta
M. perforans
M. phragmospora
M. rhodophaea
M. spartii
M. spinosella

The genus name of Montagnula is in honour of Jean Pierre François Camille Montagne (1784–1866), who was a French military physician and botanist who specialized in the fields of bryology and mycology.[4]

References
  1. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany. 13: 1–58.
  2. Berlese AN. (1896). Icones Fungorum. Pyrenomycetes. p. 68.
  3. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 438. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  4. 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.


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