Gillotia (fungus) explained

Gillotia is a genus of fungi in the family Mycosphaerellaceae.^[1]

The genus name of Gillotia is in honour of François-Xavier Gillot (1842 – 1910), who was a French physician, mycologist and botanist..^[2]

The genus was circumscribed by Pier Andrea Saccardo and Alessandro Trotter in Syll. Fung. vol.22 on page 253 in 1913.

Notes and References

1. Lumbsch . T.H. . Huhndorf . S.M. . December 2007 . Outline of Ascomycota – 2007 . Myconet . 13 . 1–58 . The Field Museum, Department of Botany, Chicago, USA . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp . 2009-03-18 .
2. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen . Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2022 . 978-3-946292-41-8 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2022 . January 27, 2022.