Pleosporaceae
Bipolaris simmondsii 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. 3d-e [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Holotype: Australia, Queensland, Peregian Beach, on leaf spot on Zoysia macrantha Desv., 14 Nov. 1976, J.L. Alcorn, BRIP 12030 (includes ex-type culture)."
  • Text: DNA sequences: from culture ex-type: GenBank KX452454 (ITS), KX452420 (GAPDH), KX452471 (TEF), KX452437 (LSU).
  • Text: identifier: MB 817467
  • Etymology: "Named after the Australian plant pathologist Dr. John Howard (Jack) Simmonds MBE, who listed the first helminthosporioid fungi found in Queensland (Simmonds 1966)."
AusFungi (2023), AusFungi: - FungI [secondary reference]