Aguirre-Hudson, Begoña
Job TitleMycology Assistant
DepartmentHerbarium, Library, Art, and Archives
SectionMycology
Science Teams:
Joined Kew: 2003
Foreign Language(s): Spanish, Basque (mother tongue), French (A-level equivalent)
Qualifications & Appointments
BSc, Univ. of Oviedo, Spain, 1982
MSc, Univ. of the Basque Country, Spain, 1985
PhD, Univ. of Reading, UK, 1988
Council, British Lichen Society (1991-1992)
Role
Assistance in herbarium curatorial duties (i.e. preparation of loans, laying away and re-disposition of collections within the systematic arrangement of the herbarium). As a trained lichen taxonomist, also deals with routine identifications of lichenised, lichenicolous fungi and other related ascomycetes, mainly pyrenomycetes. Working on lichens housed in the Economic Botany collections used for textile dyeing as a follow up to an external enquiry, and with Central European and Thai colleagues on the taxonomy of various facultatively lichenised and non-lichenised pyrenomycetes.
Projects
Selected Recent Publications
Aguirre-Hudson, B., Whitworth, I. & Spooner, B.M. (2011) J.M. Despréaux’ lichens from the Canary Islands and West Africa: an account of a 19th century collection found in an English archive. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 166: 185-211.
- Aguirre-Hudson, B. (2009). Celothelium, Cresporhaphis, Leptorhaphis, Rhaphidicyrtis. Pp 292, 363-364, 551-553, 791. In: Smith, C.W. et al. (eds.) The Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland. The British Lichen Society, MPG Books Group, Bodmin & King’s Lynn.
- Aguirre-Hudson, B., Kokubun, T., Spooner, B.M. & Tibell, L. (2007). Taxonomy of Calicium victorianum (F. Wilson) Tibell (Caliciaceae, Lecanorales), a lichenized ascomycete new to Europe. Lichenologist 39: 401–407.
- Aramendia, L.A.I. & Aguirre-Hudson, B. (2006 [2007]). Mariano La Gasca en el exilio inglés (1824-1834). Rev. Real Academia de Ciencias (Zaragoza) 61: 135–146.
- Aguirre-Hudson, B., Farkas, E. & Lőkös, L. (2005). New records of Leptorhaphis and other ascomycete genera from the Carpathian basin (Europe). Herzogia 18: 47–50.
- Wolseley, P.A., Aguirre-Hudson, B. & McCarthy, P.M. (2002). Catalogue of the lichens of Thailand. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum London (Botany) 32(1): 13–59.
Selected Earlier Publications
- Calatayud, V. & Aguirre-Hudson, B. (2001). Observations on the genus Cresporhaphis (Trichosphaeriaceae), with a key to the known species and C. ulmi sp. nov. Mycological Research 105: 122–126.
- Wolseley, P.A. & Aguirre-Hudson, B. (1997). The ecology and distribution of lichens in tropical deciduous and evergreen forests of Northern Thailand. Journal of Biogeography 24: 327–343.
- Wolseley, P.A. & Aguirre-Hudson, B. (1997). Fire in tropical dry forests: corticolous lichens as indicators of recent ecological changes in Thailand. Journal of Biogeography 24: 345–362.
- Aguirre-Hudson, B. & Wolseley, P.A. (1994). Bibliography of Southeast Asian Lichenology, 1810–1992. Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory 76: 313–350.
- Aguirre-Hudson, B. & Fiol, Ll. (1993). A new species of Leptorhaphis (Arthopyreniaceae) on Opuntia from the Balearic Islands. Lichenologist 15: 207–210.
- Aguirre-Hudson, B. (1991). A taxonomic study of the species referred to the ascomycete genus Leptorhaphis Körber. Bull. British Museum (Natural History), Botany 21(2): 85–192.
