Fungi Fungi Name Index (FNI)

Showing Hyweljonesia
Teratosphaeriaceae
Hyweljonesia R.G.Shivas, Y.P.Tan, Marney & Abell , legitimate, scientific
Crous, P.W., Wingfield, M.J., Burgess, T.I. et al. (21 December 2016), Fungal Planet description sheets: 469– 557. Persoonia 37: 269 FungI [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Type species. Hyweljonesia queenslandica R.G.Shivas, Y.P.Tan, Marney & Abell."
  • Text: Fungal Planet description sheet 490, with authors indicated as “Shivas, R.G., Marney, T.S., Tan, Y.P. & Abell, S.E.”
  • Text: identifier: MB 817134
  • Etymology: "Named after the peripatetic mycologist Dr Nigel Hywel-Jones, who is a world authority on entomopathogenic fungi and taught us all how to recognise and identify these fungi in the tropical forests of Australia and Thailand. Although Hyweljonesia may not be entomopathogenic, it was collected during a search for such fungi."