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Melaspileopsis diplasiospora

Melaspileopsis diplasiospora (Nyl.) Ertz & Diederich, Fungal Diversity 71: 161 (2015).

            ≡ Opegrapha diplasiospora Nyl., Acta Soc. Sci. fenn. 7(2): 476 (1863).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 811388; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11870, Fig. 1

Description: see Ertz and Diederich (2015); Dai et al. (2018).

Material considered: see Ertz and Diederich (2015); Dai et al. (2018).

Fig. 1 Melaspileopsis diplasiospora (Colombia, Lindig 846, PC, lectotype, re-drawn from Figs. 4O and 5s–t in Ertz and Diederich 2015). a Ascomata. b Section through ascoma. c Periphyses. Scale bars: a = 20 μm, b = 50 μm. c = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Melaspileopsis comprises only one species known on Graphis elegans (Graphidaceae) from Africa (Macaronesia), Australia (Australasia), Europe (United Kingdom), South and Central America and South East Asia.

 

References

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.

Etayo J. 1998 − Aportación a la flora liquénica de las Islas Canarias. iv. Líquenes epifitos de La Gomera (Islas Canarias). Tropical Bryology 14, 85–107.

Hongsanan S, Hyde KD, Phookamsak R, Wanasinghe DN et al. 2020b − Refined families of Dothideomycetes: orders and families incertae sedis in Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 105, 17–318.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Lumbsch HT, Liu JK et al. 2018 – Outline of Ascomycota: 2017. Fungal Diversity 88, 167–263.

 

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