Fungi Fungi Name Index (FNI)

Showing Hypoxylon szostakii
Hypoxylaceae DC.
Hypoxylon szostakii Y.P.Tan, Bishop-Hurley, Bransgr. & R.G.Shivas , legitimate, scientific
Tan, Y.P. & Shivas, R.G. (26 October 2022), Index of Australian Fungi 1: 7 FungI [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Specimen examined: Australia, Queensland, Mission Beach, from necrotic leaf spot of Pandanus tectorius (Pandanaceae), 30 Apr. 2021, K.L. Bransgrove, Y.P. Tan, T.S. Marney, M.J. Ryley, S.M. Thompson, M.D.E. Shivas & R.G. Shivas (holotype BRIP 72527b preserved in a metabolically inactive state)."
  • Text: identifier: IF 900018
  • Text: DNA sequences: from holotype: GenBank OP599624 (ITS), OP598063 (LSU).
  • Etymology: "Named after Jack William Szostak, a Canadian American geneticist of Polish-British descent, who was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carolyn Greider, for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase."