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An Annotated Catalogue of Types of the University of Illinois Mycological Collections (ILL) Illinois Biological Monographs 58 Almut G. Jones J. L. Crane and JMvi-,* Oh ILLINOIS LIBRARY T URBANA-CHAMPAIGN RIOLOrY OCT 2 4 1997 An Annotated Catalogue of Types of the University of Illinois Mycological Collections (ILL) J.L. Crane and Almut G. Jones Illinois Biological Monographs 58 University of Illinois Press Urbana and Chicago — Illinois Biological Monographs Committee David S. Seigler, chair Daniel B. Blake Joseph V. Maddox Lawrence M. Page Thomas Uzzell © 1997 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Manufactured in the United States of America C 5 4 3 2 1 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Crane, J.L. (Joseph Leland), 1935- An annotated catalogue of types of the University of Illinois mycological collections (ILL) / J.L. Crane and Almut G. Jones. p. cm. — (Illinois bilogical monographs ; 58) Includes bibliographical references (p. ). ISBN 0-252-02319-6 (alk. paper) 1. Fungi—Type specimens—Catalogs and collection—Illinois Urbana. 2. University of Illinois (System). Herbarium—Catalogs. I. Jones, Almut G. II. University of Illinois (System). Herbarium. III. Title. IV. Series. QK600.73.U62U653 1997 589.2'074'773—dc20 96-27528 CIP / w> / V. — Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Annotated List of Types 9 List of Lectotypes Located at ILL 349 List of Undistributed Fungus Exsiccati Holdings of the University of Illinois Mycological Collections 357 Literature Cited 361 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://www.archive.org/details/annotatedcatalog58univ Acknowledgments We express our sincere appreciation to the curators of BPI, CUP, FH, and NY for providing literature and copies of specimen labels from collections in their charge and to the curator of LPS for lending us certain holotypes from the Spegazzini Herbarium. We gratefully acknowledge the help of Betty Nelson, who typed and printed the first three versions of the manuscript; the assistance with curating and proofing provided by Laurel Mc- Kee; and aid from the staff of the University of Illinois Map and Geogra- phy library in the search for certain locality data. A special thanks is extended to Donald P. Rogers for assistance with Latin and with the in- terpretation of the I.C.B.N.; to Joe Hennen for his hospitality and per- mission to check certain collections in the Arthur Herbarium (PUR); and to Richard P. Korf and Susan C. Gruff of CUP, who assisted us in the re- construction of labels of specimens from C.F. Baker's Fungi Malayana. Helpful comments on the manuscript by Jack D. Rogers (Washington State University, Pullman, WA) and Roger D. Goos (University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI) are appreciated. Financial and some clerical assistance for this project were provided by the Department of Plant Biology of the University of Illinois and the Illinois Natural History Survey. Introduction The herbarium of the University of Illinois' Department of Plant Biolo- gy was founded by Thomas Jonathan Burrill in 1868. Burrill was appointed Professor of Natural History in 1868 and served the university as mycologist, plant pathologist, phytobacteriologist, and administrator until 1912. His collections from the Rocky Mountains, made during the Pow- ell expedition, and from around Champaign-Urbana, formed the nucle- us of the herbarium. Specimens from the fungus disease survey of Illi- nois, initiated by Burrill (1884, 1885, and 1887) and largely collected by A.B. Seymour, F.S. Earle, and G.P. Clinton between the years 1868 and 1884, formed the foundation for the mycological collections. The fungus herbarium was expanded with the purchase of numerous sets of exsiccati. This institution, ILL, is regarded as the principal type depository for names published by Burrill. Exceptions are indicated in the text. Frank Lincoln Stevens succeeded Burrill as Mycologist and Professor of Plant Pathology in 1914 and remained at the University of Illinois until his death in 1934. He was an authority on Ascomycetes, especially the Meliolales and Dothideales (Stevens, 1920, 1927a, 1928). Stevens' personal herbarium, consisting of several thousand fungus specimens, was donated to the Uni- versity of Illinois (ILL). His own contributions consist of numerous specimens collected during excursions to Puerto Rico (Stevens, 1916, 1918, 1920, 1927a, 1928; see also Ryan 1924), South America (Stevens 1924; Stevens and Tehon, 1926), Central America (Stevens, 1927b), during a stay in Hawaii (Stevens, 1925), and in the Philippines (Stevens and Roldan, 1935). In ad- — 2 Introduction dition, Stevens maintained an extensive exchange program of meliolaceous specimens, especially with H. Sydow at Berlin-Dahlem (B—most Sydow specimens located at that institution were destroyed during World War II), E.M. Doidge at Pretoria (PREM), and C.L. Spegazzini at La Plata (LPS). As a consequence, numerous duplicates and portions of types from these and other authors and collectors are deposited at ILL, which now represents one of the most extensive depositories of early 20th century collections of Meliolales from Africa, the Neotropics, the Hawaiian Islands, and the Phil- ippines. Duplicates of Stevens' collections have been located at BISH, BPI, CUP, FH, K, LPS, MICH, NY, PUR, PREM, URM, S, and W (cf. Stafleu and Cowan, 1985). Leland Shanor joined the botany faculty of the University of Illinois in 1934 and was appointed Curator of Fungi in 1946. He trained many prominent American mycologists until he left in 1956. Only a few of his collections were deposited at ILL. Donald P. Rogers became a faculty member of the Botany Department in 1957 and curated the mycological collections at ILL until his retirement in 1976. His contributions to the herbarium consist of several thousand specimens of resupinate Basidio- mycetes from Oregon and Hawaii and also of some Hawaiian flowering plants. J. Leland Crane, Mycologist on the staff of the Illinois Natural History Survey, served as curator from 1976 to 1986. Duplicates of some of his types are at ILL. Currently, Carol A. Shearer, Professor and Head of the Department of Plant Biology, is the curator in charge of the mycological collections at ILL. This catalogue provides information on the basionym for each type specimen, regardless of the validity or legitimacy of the name. Obligate synonyms and avowed substitute names (nomina nova) are fully cited, in chronological sequence, at the end of the paragraph under their respec- tive basionyms; they are also cross-listed in the catalogue. Full name(s) and initials of the author(s) are given for each fungus name, as well as the place and date of publication. If the actual date of publication (i.e., of distribution in print of the published name) differs from the intend- ed publication date or that of the journal volume, the latter is added within parentheses. Following the example of EC. Deighton (1968), orthographic errors of validly published fungus names were corrected in accordance with the cur- rent International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Greuter et al., 1994) abbreviated I.C.B.N. in subsequent text. We consulted the most recent edi- tion of Botanical Latin (Stearn, 1992) and also several other publications dealing with orthography of scientific botanical names and epithets, e.g., Nicolson (1974, 1986, and 1987) and Nicolson and Brooks (1974). Further assistance was obtained from Latin scholars. For invalid or illegitimate Introduction 3 names, we did not correct errors in the orthography of specific epithets but corrected spelling of the generic names where appropriate. Type information on names based on the collections of F.L. Stevens forms the bulk of this catalogue. Since most of the taxa involved were also described by Stevens, in part in collaboration with his graduate students at the University of Illinois, the herbarium of this university (ILL) is regarded as the principal depository of his types (i.e., of the specimens he used). This assumption is supported by introductory statements in several of his publications (F.L. Stevens, 1916, 1918, 1920, 1924, and 1927b), as well as those of other authors (e.g., E. Young, 1915, and C.G. Hansford, 1961). Unless otherwise indicated, we interpret Stevens' use of the term "type" to mean "holotype," and in most cases, the specimen at ILL is as- sumed to be the holotype. If he cited several collections without indicat- ing a "type," the term "syntype" is generally applied to the specimens at ILL and the term "isosyntype" to specimens deposited in other herbaria, e.g., those in the Bishop Museum (BISH). For holdings of Stevens' collections in the latter institution, the type categories used in this catalogue differ to some extent from those applied by Goos and Gowing (1992). Following the fungus name and reference, the type citation is basical- ly presented as published in the protologue, but standardized to the following sequence: type category, substrate or host, locality data (in de- scending sequence), date of collection, name of collector, collection number (not always available), and the ILL accession number, followed by an (incomplete) listing of other institutions that are known to have duplicate specimens. Complementary or contrasting information obtained from the packet label(s), explanatory notes and supplementary information, as well as the currently accepted names of host plants are inserted, within brackets, in the appropriate places. Note that we restricted use of the "=' symbol to obligate (nomenclatural) synonyms of the fungus names; the standard "=" sign was applied to both nomenclatural and taxonomic synonyms of host plants. Herbarium abbreviations are cited according to Index Herbariorum (Holmgren et al., 1990). For definition of the categories of type specimens, we followed Article 9 of I. C.B.N. (Greuter et al., 1994).

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