Pucciniaceae
Puccinia merrilliana (Syd. & P.Syd.) McTaggart & R.G.Shivas
, legitimate, scientific
[Marin-Felix, Y., Groenewald, J.Z., Cai, L. et al. (5 May 2017), Genera of phytopathogenic fungi: GOPHY 1. Studies in Mycology 86]:
196
[nom. nov.]
replaced synonym:
Uredo operculinae Syd. & P.Syd.
legitimate
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Text:
"Uredo operculinae was first described on Operculina turpethum from the Philippines (Sydow & Sydow 1913). The transfer of U. operculinae to Puccinia requires a new name, Pu. merrilliana, as Pu. operculiniae is already occupied for a rust on O. turpethum in the Malabar region in southern India (Ramakrishnan & Sundaram 1953)."
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Text:
identifier: MB 819752
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Text:
"Material examined: Australia, Western Australia, Kununurra, Ivanhoe Crossing turnoff, on leaf of Operculina aequisepala, 16 Apr. 2012, M. Butt, C. Doungsa-ard, A.R. McTaggart, R. Berndt, V. Faust-Berndt, M.D.E. Shivas & R.G. Shivas (BRIP 56913)."
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Etymology:
"The new name honours Elmer Drew Merrill (1876‒1956), an American botanist, who collected this fungus while living in the Philippines, where he became an expert on the flora of the Asia-Pacific region."