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Bacidina Pseudohyphophorifera
''Bacidina'' is a genus of lichens in the family Ramalinaceae. It was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by Czech lichenologist Antonín Vězda in 1990, with ''Bacidina phacodes'' assigned as the type species. Vězda included 11 species in ''Bacidina'', which was originally classified in the Lecideaceae. These species had previously been placed in genus ''Bacidia''. Species *''Bacidina adastra'' *''Bacidina aeruginosa'' *''Bacidina apiahica'' *''Bacidina arnoldiana'' *''Bacidina arvidssonii'' *''Bacidina assulata'' *''Bacidina brandii'' *''Bacidina brittoniana'' *''Bacidina californica'' *''Bacidina caligans'' *''Bacidina canariensis'' *''Bacidina chloroticula'' *''Bacidina cinnamomea'' *''Bacidina circumpulla'' *''Bacidina clauzadei'' *''Bacidina contecta'' *''Bacidina convexa'' – Panama *''Bacidina crystallifera'' *''Bacidina defecta'' *''Bacidina delicata'' *''Bacidina dichroma'' *''Bacidina digitalis'' *''Bacidina dissecta'' *''Bacidina egenul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonín Vězda
Antonín (Toni) Vězda (25 November 1920 – 10 November 2008) was a Czech lichenologist. After completing a university education that was postponed by World War II, Vězda taught botany at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech University of Life Sciences. In 1958, he was dismissed from his university position as a result of the restrictions placed on academic freedoms by the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, communist regime in power. He eventually was hired as a lichen researcher by the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, who allowed him to work from his apartment, which served also as an office and herbarium. Vězda was a productive worker, publishing nearly 400 scientific papers between 1948 and 2008, most solitarily, describing hundreds of new taxon, taxa, and building up a herbarium scientific collection, collection of more than 300,000 specimens. He was praised for his series of exsiccata, exsiccates – sets of dried herbarium specimens – assembled with bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |