Gibberidea
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Gibberidea is a genus
of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes
. The relationship of this taxon
to other taxa within the class is unknown (incertae sedis
). The genus was named by German mycologist Fuckel
in 1870.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes
Dothideomycetes
Dothideomycetes is the largest and most diverse class of ascomycete fungi. It comprises 11 orders 90 families, 1300 genera and over 19,000 known species. Traditionally, most of its members were included in the loculoascomycetes, which is not part of the currently accepted classification...
. The relationship of this taxon
Taxon
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to other taxa within the class is unknown (incertae sedis
Incertae sedis
, is a term used to define a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Uncertainty at specific taxonomic levels is attributed by , , and similar terms.-Examples:*The fossil plant Paradinandra suecica could not be assigned to any...
). The genus was named by German mycologist Fuckel
Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel
Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel was a German botanist who worked largely on fungi.The species epithet in the binomen Botryotinia fuckeliana, a plant pathogen and the causal agent of gray mold disease, was named by mycologist Heinrich Anton de Bary in honor of Fuckel.Formerly in nations that...
in 1870.
See also
List of Dothideomycetes genera incertae sedisExternal links
- Gibberidea at Index FungorumIndex FungorumIndex Fungorum, an international project to index all formal names in the Fungi Kingdom. Somewhat comparable to the IPNI, but with more contributing institutions....