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Ionaspis Aptrootii
''Ionaspis aptrootii'' is a species of saxicolous lichen, saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Hymeneliaceae. It occurs in New Guinea and Thailand. Taxonomy ''Ionaspis aptrootii'' is a replacement name for the taxon name ''Ionaspis tropica'', which was published by the Dutch lichenologist André Aptroot in 1997. That name was not validly published name, validly published, as it was predated by another taxon of the same name, described by Lincoln Ware Riddle in 1920. The new botanical name, species epithet honours Aptroot, who originally described the species. The type (biology), type specimen was collected by Aptroot in Varirata National Park, Papua New Guinea, where he found it growing on conglomerate rock at an elevation of . It has since been recorded in Thailand. Description ''Ionaspis aptrootii'' has a smooth, cream-white thallus up to 1 mm thick and encircled with a black prothallus#In lichens, prothallus. It has angular to star-shaped (), dark re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helge Thorsten Lumbsch
Helge Thorsten Lumbsch (born 1964) is a German-born lichenology, lichenologist living in the United States. His research interests include the phylogeny, taxonomy (biology), taxonomy, and phylogeography of lichen-forming fungi; lichen diversity; lichen chemistry and chemotaxonomy. He is the Associate Curator and Head of Cryptogams and Chair of the Department of Botany at the Field Museum of Natural History. Biography Lumbsch was born in Frankfurt in 1964. Interested in lichens already as a schoolboy, he studied natural sciences at the University of Marburg, under the tutelage of Aino Henssen. He received his diploma in 1989, with a dissertation titled ''Ontogenetisch-systematische Studien der Trapeliaceae und verwandter Familien (Lichenisierte Ascomyceten)'' ("Ontogenic-systematic studies of the Trapeliaceae and related families (lichenized ascomycetes)"). After Henssen's retirement in 1990, he transferred to the University of Duisburg-Essen, University in Essen, where he worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |