Homortomyces combreti
Homortomyces combreti Crous & M.J. Wingf., in Crous et al., IMA Fungus 3(2): 113 (2012).
Index Fungorum number: IF 801350; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11927, Fig. 1
Description: see Crous et al. (2012).
Material considered: see Crous et al. (2012).
Fig. 1 Homortomyces combreti (CPC 19800, holotype, re-drawn from Fig. 2 in Crous et al. 2012). a Leaf spots on Combretum erythrophyllum, with black pycnidia. b–d Conidiogenous cells giving rise to conidia. e Distoseptate conidia, with septal pores, transverse septa, and flattened, eccentric, basal conidial hila. f Paraphyses. Scale bars: a = 1 mm, b–f = 10 μm.
Importance and distribution
Homortomyces comprises only one species known on Combretum erythrophyllum (Combretaceae) in South Africa.
References
Crous PW, Groenewald JZ, Lombard L, Wingfeld MJ. 2012 – Homortomyces gen. nov., a new dothidealean pycnidial fungus from the cradle of humankind. IMA Fungus 3, 109–115.
Phillips AJL, Alves A, Abdollahzadeh J, Slippers B, Wingfield MJ, Groenewald JZ, Crous PW. 2013 – The Botryosphaeriaceae: genera and species known from culture. Studies in Mycology 76, 51–167.
Sutton BC. 1980 – The Coelomycetes. Fungi imperfecti with pycnidia, acervuli and stromata. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, pp 1–696.
Thambugala KM, Daranagama DA, Phillips AJL, Bulgakov TS et al. 2017 – Microfungi on Tamarix. Fungal Diversity 82, 239–306.
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