Echidnodes liturae
Echidnodes liturae (Cooke) Theiss. & Syd. [as 'litsurae'], Annls mycol. 15(6): 422 (1918) [1917].
≡ Aulographum liturae Cooke [as ‘Ailographium’], Grevillea 12(no. 61): 38 (1883).
Index Fungorum number: IF 192356; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11881, Fig. 1
Description: see Hongsanan et al. (2014).
Material considered: see Hongsanan et al. (2014).
Fig. 1 Echidnodes liturae (K 164031, holotype). a, b Appearance of thyriothecia on the upper surface of host. c Squash mount of thyriothecia. d Section through thyriothecium. e, f Asci with ascospores (stained in lactophenol cotton blue reagent). h, i Ascospores. Scale bars: b = 1 mm, c = 100 μm, d = 50 μm, e–i = 10 μm.
Importance and distribution
There are 52 Echidnodes epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but several species have been transferred to Asterinella, Cirsosia, Echidnodella, Lembosia, Lembosina, Morenoina and Prillieuxina. Echidnodes comprises 29 species known on a wide range of plants such as Acokanthera venenata (Apocynaceae), Carissa sp. (Apocynaceae), Dryopteris inaequalis (Dryopteridaceae), Clidemia hirta (Melastomataceae), Eugenia monticola (Myrtaceae), Palicourea sp. (Rubiaceae), Tillandsia utriculata (Bromeliaceae), Vriesea glutinosa (Bromeliaceae) and Crypteronia laxa (Crypteroniaceae). Echidnodes is reported from Asia (Malaysia, Philippines), Central America (Belize), Europe (Ireland), North America (Caribbean (Dominican Republic), The United States), South Africa and South America (Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela).
References
Hosagoudar VB. 2012– Asterinales of India. Mycosphere 2, 617–852.
von Arx JA, Müller E. 1975 – A re-evaluation of the bitunicate Ascomycetes with keys to families and genera. Studies in Mycology 9, 1–159.
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