Brefeldia is a genus of slime molds in the family Amaurochaetaceae.[1]
| Brefeldia | |
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| Brefeldia maxima: plasmodium after 5 days | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Phylum: | Amoebozoa |
| Class: | Myxogastria |
| Order: | Stemonitidales |
| Family: | Amaurochaetaceae |
| Genus: | Brefeldia Rostaf. |
The genus name of Brefeldia is in honour of Julius Oscar Brefeld (1839 – 1925), a German botanist and mycologist.[2]
The genus was circumscribed by Józef Tomasz Rostafínsky in 1873 and appears to be monotypic, containing the species Brefeldia maxima.[3]
References
edit- ^ Leontyev, Dmitry V.; Schnittler, Martin; Stephenson, Steven L.; Novozhilov, Yuri K.; Shchepin, Oleg N. (2019). "Towards a phylogenetic classification of the Myxomycetes". Phytotaxa. 399 (3): 209. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.399.3.5. ISSN 1179-3163. S2CID 108783142.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Rostafínsky JT (1873) Versuch Syst. Mycetozoen (Strassburg): 8, p. 20.
External links
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Media related to Brefeldia maxima at Wikimedia Commons
