Toroa dimerosporioides
Toroa dimerosporioides (Speg. ex Sacc.) Syd. [as 'dimerosporoides'], J. Dept. Agric. Porto Rico 2: 20 (1926).
≡ Zukalia dimerosporioides Speg. ex Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 9: 434 (1891).
Index Fungorum number: IF 263219; Facesoffungi number: FoF 03245, Fig. 1
Description: see Boonmee et al. (2017).
Material considered: see Boonmee et al. (2017).
Fig. 1 Toroa dimerosporioides (BAFC / LPS673, re-illustrated from Fig. 96 in Boonmee et al. 2017). a Slide specimen. b Squash mount of ascomata with aerial hyphae. c, d Squash mount of ascomata. e Ascus. f Ascospores. Scale bars: a = Specimen, b = 100 µm, c, d = 50 µm, e = 20 µm, f = 10 µm.
Importance and distribution
Toroa comprises only one species known on leaves of Bromelia spp. (Bromeliaceae) in Caribbean (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico), South America (Venezuela) and The United States (Virgin Islands, West Indies).
References
Barr ME. 1997 – Notes on some ‘dimeriaceous’ fungi. Mycotaxon 64, 149–171.
Boonmee S, Phookamsak R, Hongsanan S, Doilom M et al. 2017 – Mycosphere notes 51–101. Revision of genera in Perisporiopsidaceae and Pseudoperisporiaceae and other Ascomycota genera incertae sedis. Mycosphere 8, 1695–1801.
Gonzalez-Fragoso R, Ciferri R. 1925 – Hongos parasitos y saprofitos de la Republica Dominicana. 1a Serie. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, Biologica 25, 356–368.
Hansford CG. 1946 – The foliicolous Ascomycetes, their parasites and associated fungi. Mycological Papers 15, 1–240.
Sydow H. 1926 – Fungi in intinere costaricensi collecti, pars secunda. Annales Mycologici 24, 283–426.
Toro RA. 1926 – Mycological notes. I. Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Porto Rico 10, 11–23.
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