Starmera is a genus of fungi within the Saccharomycetales order.[1] It is placed within the Phaffomycetaceae family.[2]

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Starmera

Y. Yamada, Higashi, S. Ando & Mikata
Type species
Starmera amethionina
(Starmer, Phaff, M. Miranda & M.W. Mill.) Y. Yamada, Higashi, S. Ando & Mikata

Starmera is often associated with necrotic lesions in cacti.[3]

The genus was circumscribed by Yuzo Yamada, Tetsuo Higashi, Susumu Ando and Kozaburo Mikata in Bull. Fac. Agric. Shizuoka Univ. vol.47 on page 31 in 1997.

The genus name of Starmera is in honour of William Thomas Starmer (b.1944), an American botanist and emeritus professor of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University.[4]

Species edit

As accepted by Species Fungorum;[5]

References edit

  1. ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58.
  2. ^ "Starmera Y.Yamada, Higashi, S.Ando & Mikata". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  3. ^ Cannon, Paul F.; Kirk, Paul M. (2007). Fungal Families of the World. CABI. p. 269. ISBN 9780851998275.
  4. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  5. ^ "Starmera - Search Page". www.speciesfungorum.org. Species Fungorum. Retrieved 3 November 2022.

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