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Trichopeltina labecula

Trichopeltina labecula (Mont.) Theiss., Zentbl. Bakt. ParasitKde, Abt. II 39: 630 (1914).

Asteroma labecula Mont., Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2 14: 328 (1840).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 220570; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12112, Fig. 1

Description: see Hongsanan et al. (2014).

Material considered: see Hongsanan et al. (2014).

Fig. 1 Trichopeltina labecula (PC 0084646!). a Herbarium specimen. b Thallus and thyriothecia on host substrate. c Cells of thallus. d, e Asci (d: stained in Melzer’s reagent, e: stained in cotton blue). f–h Ascospores (f: stained in cotton blue, g, h: stained in Mezler’s reagent). Scale bars: c = 50 μm, d, e = 20 μm, f–h = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Trichopeltina comprises only one species known on coriaceous leaf in Europe (France).

 

References

Clements FE, Shear CL. 1931 – Genera of fungi, edn 2. i–vii, 58 plates. H.W. Wilson Company, USA, New York, pp 496.

Dilcher DL. 1965 – Epiphyllous fungi from Eocene deposits in western Tennessee, U.S.A. Palaeontographica Abt. B 116, 1–54.

Hongsanan S, Bahkali AH, McKenzie EHC, Chukeatirote E, Hyde KD. 2014 –Trichopeltinaceae (Dothideomycetes), an earlier name for Brefeldiellaceae, with a new species of Trichopeltina. Phytotaxa 176, 270–282.

 

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