Bernard Goffinet – Bryology (and Lichenology)

Goffinet, B. & T. Pócs. 2025. Reporting Rhachithecium perpusillum H. Rob. new to Uganda. In Ellis M. Alataş, Sk. N. Ali, D. J. Alvarez, A. M. Aponte Rojas e, J. J. Atwood f, N. Batan g, H. Bednarek-Ochyra, M. J. Cano, Ž. L. Cimerman, T. Colotti, M. J. F. Costa, E. Enkhjargal, H. Erata, P. […]

Coca L.F., H.T. Lumbsch, J.A. Mercado-Díaz, T. Widhelm, B. Goffinet, P. Kirika & R. Lücking. 2025. Diversity, phylogeny, and historical biogeography of the genus Coccocarpia (lichenized Ascomycota: Peltigerales) in the tropics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 206: 108312. pdf  Google Scholar Abstract reads Coccocarpia Pers. currently comprises 28 mostly broadly distributed tropical species of fungi associated […]

Kirbis A., N. Rahmatpour, S. Dong, J. Yu, L. Waser, H. Huang, N. van Gessel, M. Waller, R. Reski, D. Lang, S. A. Rensing, E. M. Temsch, J. L. Wegrzyn, B. Goffinet, Y. Liu & P. Szövényi. 2025. Comparative analysis of the Funaria hygrometrica genome suggests greater collinearity in mosses than in seed plants. Communication […]

Crystal Zhu, Zach Muscavitch and Bernard were invited to join the multidisciplinary expedition to parts of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve. Crystal and Bernard focused on various groups of Peltigerales (lichens) whereas Zach explored the whole diversity. Together we came back with ± 700 collections, which will be added to the CONN herbarium, with duplicates […]

Former postdoc Antoine Simon and honors student Dinah Parker led a study now published on photomorphs of New World Peltigerales: Simon A., D. Parker, J.A. Chimal Ballesteros, J. Orlando & B. Goffinet. 2024. The identity of the North American endemic Dendriscocaulon intricatulum and two southern South American cyanomorphs in the Peltigerales. The Bryologist 127: 441–464. […]