Pleosporaceae
Bipolaris shoemakeri Y.P.Tan & R.G.Shivas , legitimate, scientific
Tan, Y.P., Crous, P.W. & Shivas, R.G. (8 November 2016), Eight novel Bipolaris species identified from John L. Alcorn’s collections at the Queensland Plant Pathology Herbarium (BRIP). Mycological Progress 15: 1210, fig. 2c-d [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Holotype: Australia, Queensland, Mount Molloy, from leaf spot on Ischaemum rugosum var. segetum (Trin.) Hack., culture formed in vitro by crossing single-spored isolates, June 1987, J.L. Alcorn, BRIP 15929 (includes ex-type culture)."
  • Text: DNA sequences: from culture ex-type: KX452453 (ITS), KX452419 (GAPDH), KX452470 (TEF), KX452436 (LSU).
  • Text: identifier: MB 817466
  • Etymology: "Named after Professor Robert Alan Shoemaker, an internationally respected mycologist and plant pathologist, who established Bipolaris for helminthosporioid species with fusoid conidia and bipolar germination, thereby differentiating it from Drechslera and Helminthosporium (Shoemaker 1959)."
AusFungi (2023), AusFungi: - FungI [secondary reference]