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Aleurodiscus Oakesii
''Aleurodiscus oakesii'' is a cluster of small, gray-white, irregular cup-shaped Saprotrophic nutrition, saprotrophic fungi that grows on decaying hardwood tree bark. This fungus may also be called hophornbeam discs, and it causes smooth patch disease. ''A. oakesii'' is found year round in North America, Europe, and Asia and is commonly found on oak trees. Taxonomy ''Aleurodiscus oakesii'' is a species of fungus in the family Stereaceae. The species was first described by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis in 1873 as ''Corticium oakesii''. Mordecai Cubitt Cooke first proposed the designation ''Aleurodiscus oakesii'' in 1875 as a nomen nudum, and the first accepted mention using the new designation was by Narcisse Théophile Patouillard in 1890. The specific epithet both honors English botanist William Oakes (botanist), William Oakes and references the fungi's tendency to colonize oak trees. Description ''Aleurodiscus oakesii'' produces clusters of gray or cream-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Miles Joseph Berkeley (1 April 1803 – 30 July 1889) was an English cryptogamist and clergyman, and one of the founders of the science of plant pathology. Life Berkeley was born at Biggin Hall, Benefield, Northamptonshire, and educated at Rugby School and Christ's College, Cambridge. Taking holy orders, he became incumbent of Apethorpe in 1837, and vicar of Sibbertoft, near Market Harborough, in 1868. He acquired an enthusiastic love of cryptogamic botany (lichens) in his early years, and soon was recognized as the leading British authority on fungi and plant pathology. Christ's College made him an honorary fellow in 1883. He was well known as a systematist in mycology with some 6000 species of fungi being credited to him, but his ''Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany'', published in 1857, and his papers on Vegetable Pathology in the ''Gardener's Chronicle'' in 1854 and onwards, show that he had a broad grasp of the whole domain of physiology and morphology as understood in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |