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Thaxterogaster Urbiculus
''Thaxterogaster'' is a genus of fungi in the family Cortinariaceae. Taxonomy The genus was created in 1951 by the German mycologist Rolf Singer to contain the Species nova, novel species ''Thaxterogaster magellanicum'' and ''Thaxterogaster violaceum.'' Several other species were placed in this genus in the subsequent decades but then reclassified as ''Cortinarius'' or ''Descolea'' species. In 2022 the family Cortinariaceae, which previously contained only the one genus of ''Cortinarius'' was reclassified based on genomic data and split into the genera of ''Cortinarius'', ''Aureonarius'', ''Austrocortinarius'', ''Calonarius'', ''Cystinarius'', ''Hygronarius'', ''Mystinarius'', ''Phlegmacium'', ''Thaxterogaster'' and ''Volvanarius''. Numerous ''Cortinarius'' species were transferred into the genus of ''Thaxterogaster'' as a result of this work. The genus is further divided with subgenus and section classifications: * ''Thaxterogaster'' subgenus Cretaces includes the section: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Singer
Rolf Singer (June 23, 1906 – January 18, 1994) was a German mycologist and Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist of gilled mushrooms (agarics). He wrote the book "The Agaricales in Modern Taxonomy (biology), Taxonomy". He fled to various countries during the Nazism, Nazi period, pursuing mycology in the Soviet Union, Argentina, and finally the United States, as mycologist at the Field Museum in Chicago. Career After receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Vienna in 1931 he worked in Munich. By 1933, however, Singer left Germany for Vienna due to the political deterioration in Germany. There he met his wife, Martha Singer. From Vienna, Singer and his wife went to Barcelona, Spain, where Singer was appointed assistant professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Persecution by the Spanish authorities on behalf of the Germany, German government forced Singer to leave Spain for France in 1934. After a fellowship at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, Singer again moved, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |