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Euantennaria tropicicola

Euantennaria tropicicola Speg., Boln Acad. nac. Cienc. Córdoba 23(3-4): 549 [no. 448, repr. 187] (1918).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 241357; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11055, Fig. 1

Description: see Hyde et al. (2013).

Material examined: see Hyde et al. (2013).

Fig. 1 Euantennaria tropicicola (PDD 21317, holotype). a, b Herbarium material. c Appearance of perithecia on host. d Cross section of ascostroma. e Peridium. f Asci. g Ascospores. h Synnemata. i Synnema with head of conidia. j Branching hyphae with septa. k Hyphae. l–o Conidia. Scalebars: d, e = 100 μm, f, g = 20 μm, k–o = 50 μm.

Importance and distribution

Euantennaria comprises nine species parasitic on several plant families such as Alseuosmiaceae, Aspleniaceae, Asteliaceae, Dicksoniaceae, Elaeocarpaceae, Epacridaceae, Hymenophyllaceae, Lauraceae, Podocarpaceae, Polypodiaceae, Rubiaceae amongst others. They can attack the host substrate, and obtain nutrition from living cytoplasm (Jones 1949; Kendrick 2011). Euantennaria has been reported from several countries including Asia (Indonesia, Japan), Caribbean (Cuba), Central America (Costa Rica), Europe, North America (Canada, the United States), Oceania (New Zealand, Papua New Guinea) and South America (Colombia). Euantennaria is a poorly studied genus and lacks sequence data.

 

References

 

Hughes SJ. 1974 – New Zealand Fungi. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 12, 299–356. https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.1974.10428873

Jones S. 1949 – Parasitic Fungi. Nature, 164, 808–809. https://doi.org/10.1038/164808a0

Kendrick B. 2011– Fungi: Ecological Importance and Impact on Humans. In eLS, (Ed.). https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0000369.pub2

 

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