Pirottaea

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Name (Latin)
Pirottaea
See Also From tracing topical name
Dermateaceae
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q7198079
Library of congress: sh2002000027
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: Nannfeldt, J.A. Pirottaea (Discomycetes inoperculati), 1985.
  • Dict. of the fungi, classification search, via WWW, Jan. 9, 2002(Pirottaea Sacc. 1878, Dermateaceae, Helotiales, Leotiomycetidae, Ascomycetes, Ascomycota, Fungi)
  • CABI Bioscience database of fungal names, via WWW, Jan. 9, 2002(Pirottaea. Dermateaceae)

Wikipedia description:

Pirottaea is a genus of fungi in the family Dermateaceae. The genus contained 26 species in 2009. It went up to about 48 species later. The genus name of Pirottaea is in honour of Pietro Romualdo Pirotta (1853–1936), who was an Italian professor of botany. He was made Knight of the Crown of Italy. The genus was circumscribed by Pier Andrea Saccardo in Michelia vl.1 (Issue 4) on page 424 in 1878.

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