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Lepidopterella palustris

Lepidopterella palustris Shearer & J.L. Crane, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 75(2): 194 (1980).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 112730; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12076, Fig. 1

Description: see Shearer et al. (1980).

Material examined: see Shearer et al. (1980).

Fig. 1 Lepidopterella palustris (ILLS 38990, holotype, re-drawn from Fig. 13 in Shearer et al. 1980). a Immature asci. b Mature asci. c Asci and paraphyses. d Ascospores. Scale bars: A, C = 10 μm, B = 20 μm, D = 5 μm.

Importance and distribution

Lepidopterella comprises two species. Lepidopterella  palustris and L. tangerine are known on submerged twig in The United States (Florida, Illinois).

 

References

Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Liu JK, Ariyawansa H et al. 2013 – Families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 63, 1–313.

Shearer CA, Crane JL. 1980 – Taxonomy of two cleistothecial ascomycetes with papilionaceous ascospores. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 75, 193–200.

Shearer CA, Raja HA, Miller AN, Nelson P et al. 2009 – The molecular phylogeny of freshwater Dothideomycetes. Studies in Mycology 64, 145–153.

 

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