Clavicipitaceae
Aschersonia merianiae Y.P.Tan, Marney, Abell & R.G.Shivas , legitimate, scientific
Crous, P.W., Costa, M.M., Kandemir, H. et al. (30 December 2023), Fungal Planet description sheets: 1550–1613. Persoonia 51: 293, "Colour illustrations." [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Typus. Australia, Queensland, Lacey Creek, on scale insect (Coccoidea), Mar. 2017, S.E. Abell, Y.P. Tan, M.D.E. Shivas & R.G Shivas (holotype preserved as metabolically inactive culture BRIP 65504a ... )."
  • Text: DNA sequences: from culture ex-holotype: GenBank OR131273 (LSU), OR138131 (tef1).
  • Text: identifier: MB 850245
  • Text: Fungal Planet description sheet 1554, with authors indicated as β€œTan, Y.P., Marney, T.S., Abell, S.E. & Shivas, R.G.”
  • Etymology: "Named after Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717), who was a German naturalist and artist. Maria Merian made several trips to South America from the sale of her illustrations of plants and insects, in an age when science was largely the pursuit of wealthy men. Maria Merian documented the nature of metamorphosis with illustrated life cycles for nearly 200 species of insects and amphibians."
AusFungi (2024), AusFungi: - AFL [secondary reference]