Melanographa tribuloides
Melanographa tribuloides (Tuck.) Müll. Arg., Flora, Regensburg 65 (33): 515 (1882; as ‘tribulodes’).
≡ Opegrapha tribuloides Tuck., Genera Lichen.: 199 (1872; as ‘tribulodes’).
≡ Melaspilea tribuloides (Tuck.) Müll. Arg., Mém. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Genève 29 (8): 20 (1887).
≡ Mycomelaspilea tribuloides (Tuck.) Keissl., Annln K. K. naturh. Hofmus. Wien 42: 102 (1928; as ‘tribulodes’).
Index Fungorum number: IF 395215; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12635
Description: see Aptroot et al. (1997); Ertz and Diederich (2015).
Material considered: see Aptroot et al. (1997); Ertz and Diederich (2015).
Fig. 1 Melanographa tribuloides (U.S.A., Alabama, on Pyrenula cruenta, Curtis, FH – lectotype, re-drawn from Fig. 4j in Ertz and Diedrich 2015). Scale bar = 200 μm.
Importance and distribution
Ten species are accepted in Melanographa namely the lichenicolous Melanographa lentiginosa and M. tribuloides and the corticolous, saprobic species M. chionographa, (M. diplasiospora, M. hysteriospora, M. interalbicans, M. leucina, M. microcarpa, M. microphlebia and M. oulocheila) but none have molecular data. Melanographa tribuloides is reported on Anthracothecium and Pyrenula not causing harm to the host while M. tribuloides is known from Asia (Papua New Guinea) and the United States (Alabama, Louisiana, North Carolina).
References
Aptroot A, Diederich P, Sérusiaux E, Sipman HJM. 1997– Lichens and lichenicolous fungi from New Guinea. Bibliotheca lichenologica 64, 1–220.
Ertz D, Diederich P. 2015 − Dismantling Melaspileaceae: a first phylogenetic study of Buelliella, Hemigrapha, Karschia, Labrocarpon and Melaspilea. Fungal Diversity 71, 141–164.
Müller J. 1882 – Lichenologische Beiträge 15 (Schluss). Flora 65, 397–402.
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