Leptopeltis filicina
Leptopeltis filicina (Lib.) Höhn., Ber. dt. bot. Ges. 35: 422 (1917).
Index Fungorum number: IF 212476; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12093, Fig. 1
Description: see Hyde et al. (2013).
Material considered: see Hyde et al. (2013).
Fig. 1 Leptopeltis filicina (G 00111186, as Aulographum filicinum). a Herbarium label. b Appearance of ascomata on host substrate. c Paraphyses stained in lactophenol cotton blue. d Section through ascomata. e–h Asci with ascospores. i, j Ascospores (stained in Melzer’s reagent). Scale bars: c = 10 μm, d = 50 μm, e–j = 5 μm.
Importance and distribution
There are 13 Leptopeltis epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but four species have been transferred to Cyclotheca, Fouragea and Leptothyrium. Leptopeltis comprises nine species known on dead leaves of Pteridium aquilinum (Dennstaedtiaceae), Athyrium filix-femina (Athyriaceae), Dryopteris (Dryopteridaceae), Leucadendron (Proteaceae), Phagopteris polypolioides (Thelypteridaceae) and Polystichum pseudomakinoi (Dryopteridaceae). Leptopeltis is reported from Asia (India, Japan), Europe (Czech Republic, Norway, United Kingdom), South Africa and the United States (New York).
Reference
Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Liu JK, Ariyawansa H et al. 2013 – Families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 63, 1–313.
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