Pichia heedii

Pichia heedii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Phylum:	Ascomycota
Class:	Saccharomycetes
Order:	Saccharomycetales
Family:	Saccharomycetaceae
Genus:	Pichia
Species:	P. heedii
Binomial name
	Pichia heedii; Phaff, Starmer, M. Miranda & M.W. Mill.

Pichia heedii is a species of yeast in the family Saccharomycetaceae. Described in 1978, it was found growing on a dead senita cactus plant (Lophocereus schottii) in the Sonoran Desert of Baja California, Mexico. The species was named to honor and his contributions to the study of desert-adapted yeasts.^[1]

References[]

^ Phaff HJ, Starmer WT, Miranda M, Miller MW (1978). "Pichia heedii, a new species of yeast indigenous to necrotic cacti in the North American Sonoran Desert". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 28 (2): 326–31. doi:10.1099/00207713-28-2-326.

External links[]

Pichia heedii in MycoBank.

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[Pfaff1978-1] Phaff HJ, Starmer WT, Miranda M, Miller MW (1978). "Pichia heedii, a new species of yeast indigenous to necrotic cacti in the North American Sonoran Desert". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 28 (2): 326–31. doi:10.1099/00207713-28-2-326.

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