lichen
A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.Buellia'' and his "enormous and important collections from the Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes region, West Indies and subantarctic islands, together with his studies of those collections".Henry Andrew Imshaug—1925–2010: A tribute, Irwin M. Brodo, The Bryologist 114(2):401–407. 2011 /ref> He is also known for mentoring numerous notable lichenologists and Bryophyte, bryologists. He was a professor at
Michigan State University
Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...
. Imshaug is honoured in the lichen genus name ''
Imshaugia
''Imshaugia'' is a genus of seven species of foliose lichens in the family Parmeliaceae. They are commonly known as starburst lichens.
Taxonomy
The genus was circumscribed by Susan Meyer in 1985 as a segregate of '' Parmeliopsis''. The genus nam ...