Fungi Fungi Name Index (FNI)

Showing Pseudocercospora blackwoodiae
Mycosphaerellaceae
Pseudocercospora blackwoodiae Y.P.Tan, Bishop-Hurley & R.G.Shivas , legitimate, scientific
Crous, P.W., Osieck, E.R., Shivas, R.G. et al. (29 June 2023), Fungal Planet description sheets: 1478-1549. Persoonia 50: 283, "Colour illustrations." [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Typus. Australia, Queensland, Mount Surprise, from leaf spot of Persoonia falcata (Proteaceae), 21 Apr. 2021, K.L. Bransgrove, M.D.E. Shivas & R.G. Shivas (BRIP 72387b preserved as metabolically inactive culture, ...)"
  • Text: identifier: MB 845794
  • Text: Fungal Planet description sheet 1538, with authors indicated as “Tan, Y.P., Bishop-Hurley, S.L. & Shivas, R.G.”
  • Text: DNA sequences: from culture ex-holotype: GenBank OP584786 (ITS), OP559500 (actA), OP559501 (tef1α).
  • Etymology: "Named after Dame Margaret Blackwood (1909-1986), a distinguished Australian botanist and plant geneticist. Margaret Blackwood lectured at the University of Melbourne for most of her career, becoming its first female deputy chancellor in 1980. In 1989, Margaret Blackwood was commemorated by Phyllosticta blackwoodiae, an Australian leaf-inhabiting fungus found on Tristania grandis in Western Australia."
AusFungi (2023), AusFungi: - FungI [secondary reference]