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Eupelte amicta

Eupelte amicta Syd., Annls mycol. 22(3/6): 426 (1924).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 256664; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12211

Description: see Hosagoudar (2009);  Rossman et al. (2016).

Material considered: see Hosagoudar (2009);  Rossman et al. (2016).

 

 Fig. 1 Eupelte amicta (van der Byl 1510, holotype, re-drawn from Figs. 1−5 in Braun and Mel'nik 1998). a Thyriothecium. b, c Asci. d Ascospores. e Thyriothecium with asexual morphs. f, g Hyphae with conidia. h Conidia. Scale bar: a, e = 100 μm, b, c = 20 μm,  d, f−h = 10  μm.

Importance and distribution

Eupelte dothideoides has been synonymized and transferred to Maurodothina. Eupelte comprises four species known on living leaves of Olea laurifolia (Oleaceae), needles of Abies amabilis (Pinaceae), Rapanea pulchra (Myrsinaceae) and leaves of Andromeda ferruginea (Ericaceae). Eupelte is reported from Africa (Democratic Republic of the Congo), North America (Canada) and The United States (Florida). Species of Eupelte causes a black mildew on Abies (Pinaceae) in north temperate regions (Pirozynski and Shoemaker 1970).

 

References

Braun U, Mel'nik VA. 1997 – Cercosporoid fungi from Russia and adjacent countries. Trudy Botanicheskogo Instituta Imeni V.L. Komarova. Rossijskaya Akademiya Nauk St. Petersburg 20, 1–130.

Hosagoudar V. 2009 – Studies on Foliicolous Fungi – XXVI - a new species and three new records. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 1, 7.

Pirozynski KA, Shoemaker RA. 1970 – Some Asterinaceae and Meliolaceae on conifers in Canada. Canadian Journal of Botany 48, 1321–1328.

Rossman AY, Allen WC, Braun U, Castlebury LA et al. 2016 – Overlooked competing asexual and sexually typified generic names of Ascomycota with recommendations for their use or protection. IMA Fungus 7, 285–304.

von Arx JA, Müller E. 1975 – A re-evaluation of the bitunicate Ascomycetes with keys to families and genera. Studies in Mycology 9, 1–159.

 

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