''Skottsbergiella'' is a
genus of
fungi in the family
Gnomoniaceae
Gnomoniaceae is a family of fungi in the order Diaporthales. The family was circumscribed by German botanist Heinrich Georg Winter in 1886.
Genera
As accepted by GBIF:
* '' Alnecium'' (2)
* '' Ambarignomonia'' (2)
* ''Anisogramma'' (6) ...
. This is a
monotypic genus, containing the single species ''Skottsbergiella diaporthoides'', first described by
Franz Petrak in 1927.
The genus and species were
circumscribed
In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius.
Not every po ...
by Petrak in Nat. Hist. Juan Fernandez Easter Island (Skottsberg) vol.2 on page 481 in 1927.
The genus name of ''Skottsbergiella'' is in honour of
Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg
Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg (1 December 1880 – 14 June 1963) was a Swedish botanist and explorer of Antarctica.
Life
Skottsberg was born in Karlshamn on 1 December 1880 the son of Carl Adolf Skottsberg a schoolmaster and his wife, Maria L ...
(1880–1963), who was a Swedish botanist and explorer of
Antarctica.
References
External links
*
Skottsbergiella' at
Index Fungorum
Gnomoniaceae
Monotypic Sordariomycetes genera
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