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Vestergrenia nervisequia

Vestergrenia nervisequia Rehm, Hedwigia 40: 101 (1901).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 221417; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11909, Fig. 1

Description: see Liu et al. (2012).

Material considered: see Liu et al. (2012).

Fig. 1 Vestergrenia nervisequia (S F10703, holotype). a, b Appearance of ascostromata on host substrate. c Section through ascomata. d Peridium. e, f Asci with ascospores stained in lactophenol cotton blue. g, h Ascospores with guttules. Scale bars: b = 500 μm, c = 100 μm, d = 50 μm, e–h = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

There are 27 Vestergrenia epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but three species have been transferred to Guignardia, Petasodes and Phyllachorella. Vestergrenia comprises 24 species known on several host plants such as Achyranthes aspera (Amaranthaceae), Cestrum quitense (Solanaceae), Clerodendrum sp. (Lamiaceae), Clusia sp. (Clusiaceae), Daphniphyllum teijsmanni (Daphniphyllaceae), Glochidion lanceolatum (Phyllanthaceae), Heptapleurum venulosum (Araliaceae), Heterostemma tanjorense (Apocynaceae), Ixora elongata (Rubiaceae), Justicia sp. (Acanthaceae), Macroscepis sp. (Apocynaceae), Maesa lanceolata (Primulaceae), Semiarundinaria okuboi (Poaceae) and Sinobambusa tootsik (Poaceae). Vestergrenia is reported from Africa (Ethiopia), Asia (India, Japan), North America (Caribbean, the United States) and South America (Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela).

 

References

Liu JK, Phookamsak R, Doilom M, Wikee S et al. 2012 – Towards a natural classification of Botryosphaeriales. Fungal Diversity 57, 149–210.

Luttrell ES. 1973 – Loculoascomycetes. In: Ainsworth GC, Sparrow FK, Sussman AS (eds), The fungi. An advanced treatise, a taxonomic review with keys: ascomycetes and fungi imperfecti. Academic Press, New York, pp 135–219.

Schoch CL, Crous PW, Groenewald JZ, Boehm EWA et al. 2009a – A class-wide phylogenetic assessment of Dothideomycetes. Studies in Mycology 64, 1–15.

 

 

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