Genus of fungi
| Frommeella | |
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| Frommeëlla tormentillae on Potentilla erecta | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Pucciniomycetes |
| Order: | Pucciniales |
| Family: | Phragmidiaceae |
| Genus: | Frommeella Cummins & Y.Hirats. (1983) |
| Type species | |
| Frommeella tormentillae (Fuckel) Cummins & Y. Hirats. (1983) | |
| Species | |
Frommeella (Frommeëlla) is a genus of rust fungi in the family Phragmidiaceae. The widespread genus contains two species.
The genus name of Frommeella is in honour of Fred Denton Fromme (1886–1966), who was an American botanist (Mycology) and Professor of Botany at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
The genus was circumscribed by George Baker Cummins and Yasuyuki Hiratsuka in Ill. Gen. Rust Fungi, rev. ed., Vol.120 on page 151 in 1983.
References
- Cummins GB, Hiratsuka Y (1983). Illustrated Genera of Rust Fungi (2nd ed.). American Phytopathological Society. p. 120. ISBN 0-89054-058-6.
- Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 264. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
- 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. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
External links
- Frommeella in MycoBank.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Frommeëlla | |
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