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Echinothecium reticulatum

Echinothecium reticulatum Zopf, Nova Acta Acad. Caes Leop. Carol. German. Nat. Cur. 70: 250 (1898).

= Sphaerellothecium reticulatum (Zopf) Etayo, Cryptog. Mycol. 29(1): 87 (2008).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 183887; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12203, Fig. 1

Description: see Chomnunti et al. (2011).

Material considered: see Chomnunti et al. (2011).

Fig. 1 Echinothecium reticulatum (K(M) 171135, 171136, Syntype). a–c Ascomata on Parmelia sulcata. d–g Ascoma with eternal hyphal appendages. h, i Mature hyphae. j–l Bitunicate asci. m, n Ascospores. Scale bars: a, c, d, f = 50 μm, b, e, g–j = 20 μm, k, l = 30 μm, m, n = 5 μm.

Importance and distribution

Echinothecium comprises three species known on thallus of Alectoria sarmentosa and Hypogymnia bitteri both within the family Parmeliaceae. Echinothecium is reported from Asia (Mongolia) and North America (Canada).

 

References

 

Calatayud V, Navarro-Rosinés P, Hafellner J. 2002 – A synopsis of Lichenostigma subgen. Lichenogramma (Arthoniales), with a key to the species. Mycological Research 106, 1230–1242.

Chomnunti P, Schoch CL, Aguirre-Hudson B, KoKo TW et al. 2011 – Capnodiaceae. Fungal Diversity 51, 103–134.

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

Etayo J. 2008 – Líquenes y hongos liquenícolas del LIC de Ablitas (S. Navarra, España). Cryptogamie Mycologie 29, 63–94.

Hongsanan S, Hyde KD, Phookamsak R, Wanasinghe DN et al. 2020b − Refined families of Dothideomycetes: orders and families incertae sedis in Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 105, 17–318.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Al-Ani LKT, Tedersoo L et al. 2020 – Outline of Fungi and fungilike taxa. Mycosphere 11, 1060–1456.

 

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