Myxophora amerospora
Myxophora amerospora Döbbeler & Poelt, Mitt. bot. StSamml., Münch. 14: 315 (1978).
Index Fungorum number: IF 318440; Facesoffungi number: FoF 03867, Fig. 1
Description: see Boonmee et al. (2017).
Material considered: see Boonmee et al. (2017).
Fig. 1 Myxophora amerospora (GZU 000291904, holotype). a, b Herbarium specimen and habit on leaves. c Section of ascoma. d Peridium. e Pseudoparaphyses. f–h Asci. i–m Ascospores. Scale bars: c = 50 μm, d = 40 μm, e, i–m = 10 μm, f–h = 20 μm.
Importance and distribution
Myxophora comprises seven members known on five host plants in Amblystegiaceae, Collemataceae and Placynthiaceae. One species, M. tjibodensis was found infecting filaments of Scytonema, a genus of photosynthetic cyanobacteria (Döbbeler 1978; Esslinger 1996). Myxophora is reported from Asia (Java), Australia (New Guinea), Europe (Austria, Germany, Spain) and Oceania (New Zealand).
References
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.
Döbbeler P. 1978 – Moosbewohnende Ascomycetes I. Die pyrenocarpen, den Gametophyten besiedelnden Artenin (Germany). Mitteilungen aus der Botanischen Staatssammlung München 14, 1–360.
Esslinger TL. 1996 – Recent Literature on Lichens. 161. The Bryologist 99, 252–267.
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