There are several provisions of the Botanical Code that apply particularly to fungi.

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There are several provisions of the Botanical Code that apply particularly to fungi. For example, lichens, symbiotic associations betwen a fungus and at least one photosynthetic alga or cyanobacterium, are named and classified on the basis of their fungal components. A second provision allowws pleomorphic fungi (those having more than a single morphological form, usually distinguished by spore type) to be named as many times as there are different spore types. For example, the ascomycete Schiffneria pulchra (Sacc.) Petrak has one conidial state known as Sarcinella heterospora Sacc. and yet another conidial state known as Questieriella pulchra S. Hughes (Hughes, 1987). The code allows each distinct state to be named; however the holomorph name, that of the entire fungus in all of its morphological expressions, is the name of the sexual state (S. pulchra).

(Alexopolous, Mims, and Blackwell, Introductory Mycology, p. 80.)

Comments

[jcreed.livejournal.com]

There is a peculiar resonance in the repetition of the phrase "There are several provisions of the Botanical Code that apply particularly to fungi." in both the title and in the first sentence of your entry. It makes me want to hear a song with that as its refrain.

[eub.livejournal.com]

It sounds a great deal like a song Veda Hille would write.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Different genera? Argh.

[eub.livejournal.com]

And all mashed into the same global namespace. Bewildering.

[agh.livejournal.com]

I think of it more as a phrase you'd here in the newsreel background of a song, you know, the songs where they clip together low-bitrate soundbytes of people speaking/lecturing .

Dream Theater likes those, and did one about stem cell research. Metallica has done it, Simon and Garfunkel did it. It comes up in techno all the time.

Anyway, only p. 80, huh? I think it'd take me more than 79 pages to ramp up to the level of knowledge required to comprehend that. Then again, I didn't get a math degree (I only double-majored) primarily to avoid Biology.