Vilmos Kőfaragó-Gyelnik
Vilmos Kőfaragó-Gyelnik (March 30, 1906 – March 15, 1945) was a Hungarian
Prior to earning his PhD in 1929 from
Gyelnik published about 100 papers on lichens in the period 1926 to 1945, and proposed hundreds of new names, particularly in the genera Alectoria, Nephroma, Parmelia, and Peltigera.[3] He described about 1300 new taxa, including 264 new species.[4] His work, however, was not without detractors, who thought he published too hastily, and sometimes forgot what he had published earlier. According to Mason Hale, Gyelnik "infuriated or at least antagonized virtually every contemporary lichenologist".[2] Ana Crespo and colleagues expressed a similar sentiment: "He was generally viewed as something of a nomenclatural terrorist by his contemporaries who were infuriated by the large numbers of novel taxa he described, most of which they could not accept, and an apparent slackness in how he worked".[5] However, Hale also noted his deep understanding of the genus Xanthoparmelia and suggested that he was ahead of his time for using chemical tests and various morphological characters in devising his own classification system for European parmelioid lichens – some of which were used to define genera many decades later.[2] Between 1933 and 1937 Kőfaragó-Gyelnik edited and distributed three exsiccatae.[6]
Gyelnik is honoured in the name of the species Verrucaria gyelnikii Servít (1939), Polyblastia gyelnikiana Servít (1946), Thelidium gyelnikii Servít (1946), Parmelia gyelnikii C.W.Dodge (1959),[7] and Psorotichia gyelnikii S.Y. Kondr., Lőkös & Hur (2016).[8]
See also
References
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- ^ Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
- ^ Hertel, Hannes; Gärtner, Georg; Lőkös, László (2017). "Forscher an Österreichs Flechtenflora" [Investigators of Austria's lichen flora] (PDF). Stapfia (in German). 104 (2): 54.
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- ^ International Plant Names Index. Gyeln.