protist
A protist () is any eukaryotic organism (that is, an organism whose cells contain a cell nucleus) that is not an animal, plant, or fungus. While it is likely that protists share a common ancestor (the last eukaryotic common ancestor), the exc ...
genus of the family Plasmodiophoraceae.
The genus name of ''Ligniera'' is in honour of Élie Antoine Octave Lignier (1855–1916), who was a French botanist, known for his work in the field of
paleobotany
Paleobotany, which is also spelled as palaeobotany, is the branch of botany dealing with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geological contexts, and their use for the biological reconstruction of past environments (paleogeogr ...