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Karschia talcophila

Karschia talcophila (Ach.) Körb., Parerga lichenol. (Breslau) 5: 460 (1865).

≡ Lecidea talcophila Ach., Lich. Univ.: 183 (1810).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 237207; Facesoffungi number: FoF11869 , Fig. 1

Description: see Hafellner (2004).

Material examined: see Hafellner (2004).

 

 

Fig. 1 Karschia talcophila (S-F203801, holotype).  a Herbarium material. b Appearance of ascomata on host substrate. c Peridium. d Section through ascomata. e Peridium. f, g Asci. h, i Ascospores. Scale bars: c = 50 μm, d = 100 μm, e = 50 μm, f, g = 20 μm, h, i = 5 μm.

 

Importance and distribution

There are 65 Karschia epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but many species have been transferred to other genera such as Amandinea, Arthonia, Buellia, Buelliella, Catinella, Colensoniella, Cycloschizon, Dermatella, Epilichen, Gibbera, Heterosphaeriopsis, Monerolechia, Poetschia, Polycoccum, Pseudodiscus, Rhizocarpon, Rhizodiscina, Rhizogene, Schrakia, Sclerococcum, Stratisporella and Tetramelas. Karschia comprises 24 species known on several host plants such as Acer sp. (Sapindaceae), Amelanchier alnifolia (Rosaceae), Betula sp. (Betulaceae), Cereus sp. (Cactaceae), Juniperus virginiana (Cupressaceae), Metrosideros tremuloides (Myrtaceae), Pinus echinata (Pinaceae), Quercus robur (Fagaceae), Vaccinium corymbosum (Ericaceae) and Populus trichocarpa (Salicaceae). Karschia is reported from Asia (China), Europe (Georgia, Portugal), North America (Canada, The United States) and South America (Chile, Argentina).

 

References

Butler ET. 1940 – Studies in the Patellariaceae. Mycologia 32, 791–823.

Clements FE. 1909 – The genera of Fungi. H.W. Wilson, Minneapolis, pp. 1–227.

Courtecuisse R, Samuels GJ, Hoff M, Rossman AY, Cremers G, Huhndorf SM, Stephenson SL. 1996 – Check-list of fungi from French Guiana. Mycotaxon 57, 1–85.

Dai DQ, Tang LZ, Liu C, Wang HB, Hyde KD. 2018 − Studies on Parmulariaceae I. A phylogeny based on available sequence data; introducing Parmulariales ord. nov., and Hemigraphaceae, Melaspileellaceae and Stictographaceae fam. nov. Phytotaxa 369, 063–079.

Ertz D, Diederich P. 2015 − Dismantling Melaspileaceae: a first phylogenetic study of Buelliella, Hemigrapha, Karschia, Labrocarpon and Melaspilea. Fungal Diversity 71, 141–164.

Hafellner J, Poelt J. 1976 – Die Gattung Karschia - Bindeglied zwischen bitunicaten Ascomyceten und lecanoralen Flechtenpilzen? Plant Systematics and Evolution 126, 243 –254.

Hafellner J. 1979 – Karschia. Revision einer Sammelgattung an der Grenze von lichenisierten und nichtlichenisierten Ascomyceten. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 62, 1–248. 

Hafellner J. 2004 – Karschia. In: T.H. Nash III, B.D. Ryan, P. Diederich, C. Gries and F. Bungartz (eds.): Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol. 2. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, p. 655.

Hawksworth DL, Kirk PM, Sutton BC, Pegler DN. 1995 – Ainsworth & Bisby’s Dictionary of the Fungi (Eighth Edition). CAB International, 771 pp.

Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Liu JK, Ariyawansa H et al. 2013 – Families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 63, 1–313.

Kirk P, Cannon P, Minter D, Stalpers JA. 2008 – Dictionary of the Fungi. 10th edn. CAB International, Wallingford.

Lumbsch HT, Huhndorf SM. 2010 – Outline of Ascomycota 2009. Myconet 14, 1–64.

Thambugala KM, Singtripop C, Chunfang YU, Mckenzie EH et al. 2014 – Towards a natural classification of Dothideomycetes 7: the genera Allosoma, Austropleospora, Dangeardiella, Griggsia and Karschia (Dothideomycetes incertae sedis). Phytotaxa 181, 34–46.

 

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