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Parapenidiella tasmaniensis

Parapenidiella tasmaniensis (Crous & M.J. Wingf.) Crous, in Crous et al., Persoonia 29: 185 (2012).

≡ Mycovellosiella tasmaniensis Crous & M.J. Wingf., in Crous et al., Mycol. Res. 102(5): 527 (1998).

Index Fungorum number: IF 801785; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12625, Fig. 1

Description: see Crous et al. (1998); Crous et al. (2012).

Material examined:  see Crous et al. (1998); Crous et al. (2012).

Fig. 1 Parapenidiella tasmaniensis and its asexual morph Mycovellosiella tasmaniensis (PREM 55339; redrawn from Crous et al. 1998). a Ellipsoidal asci and fusoid–ellipsoidal ascospores. b Ascospores germinating on MEA. c Conidiophores and catenate conidia with thickened, darkened loci. Scale bars = 10 µm.

Importance and distribution

Parapenidiella comprises two saprobic species known on Myrtaceae. Parapenidiella has been reported from Australia (Tasmania, Victoria).

 

References

Crous P, Braun U, Bensch K, Groenewald JZ. 2007 – The genus Cladosporium and similar dematiaceous hyphomycetes. Studies in Mycology 58, 253.

Crous PW, Shivas RG, Wingfield MJ, Summerell BA et al. 2012 – Fungal Planet description sheets: 128–153. Persoonia 29, 146–201.

Crous PW, Wingfield MJ, Mohammed C, Yuan ZQ. 1998 – New foliar pathogens of Eucalyptus from Australia and Indonesia. Mycological Research 102, 527–532.

Seifert KA, Nickerson NL, Corlett M, Jackson ED et al. 2004 – Devriesia, a new hyphomycete genus to accommodate heat-resistant, cladosporium-like fungi. Canadian Journal of Botany 82, 914–926.

 

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