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Stictographa lentiginosa

Stictographa lentiginosa (Lyell ex Leight.) Mudd, Man. Brit. Lich.: 226 (1861).

            ≡ Opegrapha lentiginosa Lyell ex Leight., Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., Ser. 2 13: 211 (1854)

Index Fungorum number: IF 406525; Facesoffungi number: FoF 07618, Fig. 1

Description: see Mudd (1861); Sanderson et al. (2009); Ertz and Diederich (2015).

Material considered: see Mudd (1861); Sanderson et al. (2009); Ertz and Diederich (2015).

Fig. 1 Stictographa lentiginos (redrawn from Fig 4 in Ertz and Diederich 2015). a Ascomata growing on lichen. b Ascus with ascospores. c Pseudo paraphyses. d Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 200 µm, b–d = 10 µm.

 

Importance and distribution

Stictographa comprises only one species known on Fagus (Fagaceae) in Europe (England).

 

References

Diederich P, Lawrey JD, Ertz D. 2018 – The 2018 classification and checklist of lichenicolous fungi, with 2000 non-lichenized, obligately lichenicolous taxa. The Bryologist 121, 340–425.

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

Mudd A. 1861 – Manual of British Lichen, 226.

Sanderson NA, Hawksworth DL, Aptroot A. 2009 – Melaspilea Nyl. (1857). In: Smith CW, Aptroot A, Coppins BJ, Fletcher A, Gilbert OL, James PW, Wolseley PA. (eds), The Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland. British Lichen Society, London, pp. 576–579.

 

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