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Xenophacidiella pseudocatenata

Xenophacidiella pseudocatenata Crous, in Crous & Groenewald, Persoonia 26: 82 (2011).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 560025; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11410, Fig. 1

            Description: Crous and Groenewald (2011).

            Material examined: Crous and Groenewald (2011).

Fig. 1 Xenophacidiella pseudocatenata (CPC 18472, re-drawn from Crous and Groenewald 2011). a–c Conidiogenous cells (arrows) giving rise to conidia. d Conidia. Scale bar: a, d = 10 µm.

Importance and distribution

Xenophacidiella comprises only one species known on leaf bracts of Phaenocoma prolifera (Asteraceae) in South Africa. Xenophacidiella is also associated with Eucalyptus gunnii (Myrtaceae) and other hosts (Varela et al. 2020).

 

References  

Crous PW, Groenewald JZ. 2011 – Why everlastings don’t last. Persoonia 26, 70–84.

Mayfield DA. 2013 – Sooty blotch and flyspeck disease of apple: expansion of the fungal complex in Turkey and evaluation of a warning system for the Upper Midwest. Graduate Theses and Dissertations. Available at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/13315

Sutton BC. 1980 – The Coelomycetes: Fungi imperfecti with pycnidia, acervular and stromata. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, Surrey, England.

Varela C, Sundstrom J, Cuijvers K, Jiranek V, Borneman A. 2020 – Discovering the indigenous microbial communities associated with the natural fermentation of sap from the cider gum Eucalyptus gunnii. Scientific reports 10, 14716.

 

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