André Aptroot

In 1993 he did his PhD at the University of Utrecht under the supervision of Robbert Gradstein (nl). His dissertation was titled "Systematic studies on pyrenocarpous lichens and related fungi".

He specializes in fungi and lichens on which he has several hundreds of publications to his name. He has worked as curator at Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (now Westerdijk Institute).

Aptroot is the founder of the Adviesbureau voor Bryologie en Lichenologie – Herbarium (Consultancy for Bryology and Lichenology), which is located in Soest where there is a herbarium with a collection of lichens mainly from the Netherlands and the tropics. This collection numbers into the tens of thousands of specimens, estimated to represent about 10,000 species. From 2008 he has been collection manager at Pinetum Blijdenstein (nl) in Hilversum. He is a member of the International Association for Lichenology[http://www.lichenology.org/ International Association for Lichenology] and the American Bryological and Lichenological Society.

He is a visiting professor at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul in Campo Grande, Brazil, since February 2019. In 2020, Aptroot was listed among the 100,000 most influential scientists in the world according to research published by Stanford University, which utilised citations from the Scopus database. The research highlighted scientists' impact throughout their careers and in the year 2019 specifically. Because of Aptroot's broad expertise in tropical lichens, his colleague Ingvar Kärnefelt has called him "a Müller Argoviensis of our time". Aptroot is the author or co-author of three of the thirty most highly cited publications published in the scientific journal The Lichenologist from 2000 to 2019. He is also a prolific author (or co-author) of new fungal and lichen species, having formally described 775 as of December 2017. Starting with 2017 he acts as co-editor of the exsiccata series Lichenes Neotropici, together with Klaus Kalb.{{cite web |title=Lichenes Neotropici: IndExs ExsiccataID=2147199835 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199835 |access-date=24 May 2024}}

File:Lecidea aptrootii (10.3897-mycokeys.38.26960) Figure 4.jpg is one of many species named after Aptroot.]]

Several taxa have been named to honour Aptroot. These include the genera Aptrootia {{small|Lücking & Sipman (2007)}} and Aptrootidea {{small|Xavier-Leite, M.Cáceres & Lücking (2023)}} and the following species: Mazosia aptrootii {{small|Sipman (1991)}}; Buellia aptrootii {{small|Sipman (1992)}}; Parmotrema aptrootii {{small|Aubel (1992)}}; Byssoloma aptrootii {{small|Sérus. (1993)}}; Porina aptrootii {{small|P.M.McCarthy (1993)}}; Pertusaria aptrootii {{small|A.W.Archer & Elix (1998)}}; Didymella aptrootii {{small|K.D.Hyde & S.W. Wong (1999)}}; Lecidella aptrootii {{small|Knoph & Garnitz (1999)}}; Sclerophyton aptrootii {{small|Sparrius (2004)}}; Alloconiothyrium aptrootii {{small|Verkley, Göker & Stielow (2014)}}; Graphis aptrootiana {{small|Van den Broeck, Lücking & Ertz (2014)}}; Ocellularia aptrootiana {{small|Weerakoon, Lücking & Lumbsch (2014)}}; Sclerococcum aptrootii {{small|Diederich (2015)}}; Myxospora aptrootii {{small|L.Lombard & Crous (2016)}}; Hazslinszkyomyces aptrootii {{small|Crous (2017)}}; Gyalideopsis aptrootii {{small|Xavier-Leite, M.Cáceres & Lücking (2018)}}; Lecidea aptrootii {{small|M.Khan, A.N.Khalid & Lumbsch (2018)}}; Pseudochapsa aptrootiana {{small|M.Cáceres, T.A.Pereira & Lücking (2018)}}; Ionaspis aptrootii {{au|Poengs. & Lumbsch (2021)}}; Carbacanthographis aptrootii {{small|Feuerstein & Lücking (2022)}}; and Tremella aptrootii {{small|Diederich & Common (2022)}}.

Aptroot has written more than 500 publications on the floristics and systematics of lichens and fungi.

• A Monograph of Didymosphaeria, André Aptroot: Studies in Mycology 37; 1–160 (1995) [thesis]
• {{cite journal | last1=Lücking | first1=Robert |last2=Archer |first2=Alan W. |last3=Aptroot |first3=André | title=A world-wide key to the genus Graphis (Ostropales: Graphidaceae) |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=41 |issue=4 |year=2009 |doi=10.1017/s0024282909008305 |pages=363–452}}
• {{cite journal |last=Aptroot |first=André |title=A world key to the species of Anthracothecium and Pyrenula |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=44 |issue=1 |year=2011 |doi=10.1017/s0024282911000624 |pages=5–53 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Aptroot |first1=André |last2=Lücking |first2=Robert |title=A revisionary synopsis of the Trypetheliaceae (Ascomycota: Trypetheliales) |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=48 |issue=6 |year=2016 |doi=10.1017/s0024282916000487 |pages=763–982 |doi-access=free }}
• Veldgids Korstmossen, Kok van Herk, André Aptroot & Laurens Sparrius, KNNV Uitgeverij (2019)

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• :Category:Taxa named by André Aptroot

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{{cite journal |last1=Archer |first1=A.W. |last2=Elix |first2=J.A. |title=Additional new species and two new reports in the lichen genus Pertusaria (lichenised Ascomycotina) from Papua New Guinea |journal=Mycotaxon |year=1998 |volume=67 |pages=157–158 |url=http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59575/0067/0157.htm}}

{{cite journal |last1=Broeck |first1=Dries Van den |last2=Lücking |first2=Robert |last3=Ertz |first3=Damien |title=Three new species of Graphidaceae from tropical Africa |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=189 |issue=1 |year=2014 |pages=325–330 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.189.1.23}}

{{cite journal |last1=Crous |first1=Pedro W. |last2=Groenewald |first2=Johannes Z. |title=The Genera of Fungi — G 4: Camarosporium and Dothiora |journal=IMA Fungus |volume=8 |issue=1 |year=2017 |pages=131–152 |doi=10.5598/imafungus.2017.08.01.10 |pmid=28824845 |pmc=5493531 |hdl=2263/62204 |hdl-access=free}}

{{cite journal |last1=Diederich |first1=P. |year=2015 |title=Two new lichenicolous species of Sclerococcum (asexual Ascomycetes) growing on Graphidaceae |journal=Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes Luxembourgeois |volume=117 |pages=35–42 |url=http://www.lichenology.info/pdf/DiederichSclerococcumGraphidaceae2015.pdf}}

{{cite book |last1=Diederich |first1=P. |last2=Millanes |first2=A.M. |last3=Wedin |first3=M. |year=2022 |title=Class Tremellomycetes, order Tremellales |series=Flora of Lichenicolous Fungi |volume=1 |page=135 |publisher=National Museum of Natural History |location= Luxembourg |isbn=978-2-919877-26-3}}

{{cite journal |last1=Feuerstein |first1=Shirley Cunha |last2=Lücking |first2=Robert |last3=Borges da Silveira |first3=Rosa Mara |title=A worldwide key to species of Carbacanthographis (Graphidaceae), with 17 species new to science |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=54 |issue=1 |year=2022 |doi=10.1017/s002428292100044x |pages=45–70}}

{{cite journal |first1=Hannes |last1=Hertel |first2=Georg |last2=Gärtner |first3=László |last3=Lőkös |title=Forscher an Österreichs Flechtenflora |trans-title=Investigators of Austria's lichen flora |journal=Stapfia |year=2017 |volume=104 |issue=2 |pages=1–211 (see p. 16) |language=German |url=https://www.zobodat.at/biografien/Flechtenforschung_Austria_STAPFIA_0104_2_0001-0211.pdf}}

{{cite journal |last1=Hyde |first1=K.D. |last2=Wong |first2=S.W. |year=1999 |title=Didymella aptrootii sp. nov. from bamboo submerged in freshwater |journal=Australasian Mycologist |volume=18 |pages=54–59}}

{{cite journal |authorlink=Ingvar Kärnefelt |last1=Kärnefelt |first1=E.T. |year=1993 |title=A letter from the President: the state of Dutch lichenology |journal=International Lichenological Association Newsletter |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=9–10 |url=http://www.lichenology.org/Publications/ILN/ILN_26_1.pdf}}

{{cite book |last1=Kärnefelt |first1=Ingvar |author-link=Ingvar Kärnefelt |chapter=Fifty influential lichenologists |page=288 |title=Diversity of Lichenology – Anniversary Volume |editor1-last=Thell |editor1-first=Arne |editor2-last=Seaward |editor2-first=Mark R. D. |editor3-last=Feuerer |editor3-first=Tassilo |year=2009 |series=Bibliotheca Lichenologica |publisher=J. Kramer |volume=100 |location=Stuttgart |isbn=978-3-443-58079-7}}

{{cite journal |last1=Khan |first1=Memoona |last2=Khalid |first2=Abdul Nasir |last3=Lumbsch |first3=H. Thorsten |title=A new species of Lecidea (Lecanorales, Ascomycota) from Pakistan |journal=MycoKeys |volume=38 |year=2018 |issue=38 |pages=25–34 |doi=10.3897/mycokeys.38.26960 |pmid=30123028 |pmc=6092473 |doi-access=free}}

{{cite journal |last1=Knoph |first1=J.G. |last2=Garnitz |first2=R. |last3=Leuckert |first3=C. |year=1999 |title=Two new corticolous species of the genus Lecidella (Lecanoraceae, Lecanorales, lichenized Ascomycotina) |journal=Mycotaxon |volume=71 |pages=163–168}}

{{cite journal |last1=Lombard |first1=L. |last2=Houbraken |first2=J. |last3=Decock |first3=C. |last4=Samson |first4=R.A. |last5=Meijer |first5=M. |last6=Réblová |first6=M. |last7=Groenewald |first7=J.Z. |last8=Crous |first8=P.W. |title=Generic hyper-diversity in Stachybotriaceae |journal=Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi |volume=36 |issue=1 |year=2016 |pages=156–246 |doi=10.3767/003158516X691582 |pmid=27616791 |pmc=4988370}}

{{cite journal |last=Lücking |first=Robert |title=Three challenges to contemporaneous taxonomy from a licheno-mycological perspective |journal=Megataxa |volume=1 |issue=1 |year=2020 |doi=10.11646/megataxa.1.1.16 |page=78–103 [86]}}

{{cite journal |last=Lücking |first=Robert |title=Peter D. Crittenden: meta-analysis of an exceptional two-decade tenure as senior editor of The Lichenologist, the flagship journal of lichenology |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=53 |issue=1 |year=2021 |doi=10.1017/s0024282920000560 |pages=3–19 |doi-access=free}}

{{cite journal |last1=McCarthy |first1=P.M. |year=1993 |title=Saxicolous species of Porina Müll. Arg. (Trichotheliaceae) in the Southern Hemisphere |journal=Bibliotheca Lichenologica |volume=52 |page=29}}

{{cite journal |last1=Pereira |first1=Thamires Almeida |last2=Passos |first2=Paula de Oliveira |last3=Santos |first3=Lidiane Alves dos |last4=Lücking |first4=Robert |last5=Cáceres |first5=Marcela Eugenia Da Silva |title=Going extinct before being discovered? New lichen fungi from a small fragment of the vanishing Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil |journal=Biota Neotropica |volume=18 |issue=1 |year=2018 |doi=10.1590/1676-0611-bn-2017-0445 |doi-access=free}}

{{cite journal |last1=Poengsungnoen |first1=V. |last2=Buaruang |first2=K. |last3=Boonpragob |first3=K. |last4=Lumbsch |first4=H.T. |year=2021 |title=A key to the identification of the genera of lichenized fungi occurring in Thailand |journal=Mycotaxon |volume=136 |issue=2 |pages=409–444 |doi=10.5248/136.409 |doi-access=free}}

{{cite journal |last1=Sérusiaux |first1=E. |year=1993 |title=New taxa of foliicolous lichens from western Europe and Macaronesia |journal=Nordic Journal of Botany |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=447–461 |doi=10.1111/j.1756-1051.1993.tb00080.x |hdl=2268/174879 |hdl-access=free}}

{{cite journal |last1=Sipman |first1=H.J.M. |year=1991 |title=More foliicolous lichens from Australia |journal=Nova Hedwigia |volume=53 |pages=255–264}}

{{cite journal |last1=Sipman |first1=H. |last2=Aubel |first2=R.J.M.T. van. |year=1992 |title=New Parmeliaceae (Lichenes) from the Guianas and surroundings |journal=Mycotaxon |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=1–12 |url=http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59575/0044/001/0001.htm}}

{{cite journal |last1=Sipman |first1=H.J.M. |last2=Aptroot |first2=A. |year=1992 |title=Results of a botanical expedition to Mount Roraima, Guyana. II. Lichens |journal=Tropical Bryology |volume=5 |pages=79–108}}

{{cite journal |last1=Sparrius |first1=L.B. |year=2004 |title=A monograph of Enterographa and Sclerophyton |journal=Bibliotheca Lichenologica |volume=89 |page=68}}

{{cite web |last=Pimenta |first=Paula |date=19 November 2020 |title=Professor visitante da UFMS é um dos 100 mil cientistas mais influentes do mundo |trans-title=Visiting professor at UFMS is one of the 100,000 most influential scientists in the world |url=https://www.ufms.br/professor-visitante-da-ufms-e-um-dos-100-mil-cientistas-mais-influentes-do-mundo/ |publisher=Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul |access-date=19 May 2024}}

{{cite journal |last1=Verkley |first1=G.J.M. |last2=Dukik |first2=K. |last3=Renfurm |first3=R. |last4=Göker |first4=M. |last5=Stielow |first5=J.B. |title=Novel genera and species of coniothyrium-like fungi in Montagnulaceae (Ascomycota) |journal=Persoonia |volume=32 |issue=1 |year=2014 |doi=10.3767/003158514x679191 |pmid=25264382 |pmc=4150078 |pages=25–51}}

{{cite journal |last1=Weerakoon |first1=Gothamie |last2=Lücking |first2=Robert |last3=Lumbsch |first3=H. Thorsten |title=Thirteen new species of Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales) from Sri Lanka |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=189 |issue=1 |year=2014 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.189.1.24 |pages=331–347}}

{{cite journal |last1=Xavier-Leite |first1=Amanda Barreto |last2=da Silva Cáceres |first2=Marcela E. |last3=Goto |first3=Bruno Tomio |last4=Lücking |first4=Robert |title=The genus Gyalideopsis (lichenized Ascomycota: Gomphillaceae) in Brazil: updated checklist, key to species, and two novel taxa with unique hyphophores |journal=The Bryologist |volume=121 |issue=1 |year=2018 |pages=32–40 |doi=10.1639/0007-2745-121.1.032}}

{{cite journal |last1=Xavier-Leite |first1=Amanda Barreto |last2=Goto |first2=Bruno Tomio |last3=Lücking |first3=Robert |last4=da Silva Cáceres |first4=Marcela Eugenia |title=New genera in the lichenized family Gomphillaceae (Ascomycota: Graphidales) focusing on neotropical taxa |journal=Mycological Progress |volume=22 |issue=12 |year=2023 |doi=10.1007/s11557-023-01933-1 |page=e88}}

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• [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3h7SpLQAAAAJ&hl=en Citations for André Aptroot in Google Scholar]
• [http://www.blwg.nl/mossen/onderzoek/rapporten/index.aspx Netherlands Bryological and Lichenological Society Reports (nl)]
• Wikispecies: "Lichens of St Helena"; "Pictures of Tropical Lichens" and other publications of André Aptroot
• [http://www.darwinfoundation.org/datazone/checklists/true-fungi/lichens/ Galapagos Species Checklist Lichenized Fungi], Frank Bungartz, Frauke Ziemmeck, Alba Yanez Ayabaca, Fredy Nugra, André Aptroot

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