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Hypotrachyna Vainioi
''Hypotrachyna vainioi'' is a species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. It is found in Brazil. Taxonomy The lichen was species description, described as a new species in 2009 by Harrie Sipman, John Alan Elix, John Elix, and Thomas Hawkes Nash III, Thomas Nash in their 2009 monograph on the genus ''Hypotrachyna''. The type (biology), type was collected by Sipman in September 1997. The botanical name, specific epithet honours Finnish lichenologist Edvard Vainio, "the first experienced lichenologist to do lichenological fieldwork in the tropics, in southeastern Brazil". Description ''Hypotrachyna vainioi'' has a corticolous lichen, corticolous thallus measuring wide. The individual lobes comprising the thallus are flat to somewhat convex with Glossary of botanical terms#entire, entire margins, and measure wide. The upper surface of the thallus is pale grey with a smooth to shallowly wrinkled texture. The thallus completely lacks soredia, isidia, pustules, dactyls (fing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harrie Sipman
Henricus (Harrie) Johannes Maria Sipman (born 1945) is a Dutch lichenologist. He specialises in tropical and subtropical lichens, and has authored or co-authored more than 250 scientific publications. He was the curator of the lichen herbarium at the Berlin Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum from 1983 until his retirement in 2010. Life and career Sipman was born in 1945 in Sittard, Netherlands. He attended Utrecht University, where he studied botany. Sipman was appointed to the Herbarium and the Institute for Systematic Botany from 1972 to 1982, where his focus was on lichenology and bryology. During this time, some of his research publications dealt with taxa from the lichen genera ''Cladonia'' and '' Stereocaulon'', and on the Musci '' Anisothecium staphylinum'', '' Campylopus'' and ''Ephemerum''. His supervisor was Robbert Gradstein (nl). He earned his PhD in 1983 after defending a thesis on the family Megalosporaceae, later published as a monograph in the '' Bibliotheca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |