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Xylomyces chlamydosporus

Xylomyces chlamydosporus Goos, R.D. Brooks & Lamore [as 'chlamydosporis'], Mycologia 69(2): 282 (1977).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 325631; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11932, Fig. 1

Description: see Goos et al. (1977).

Material examined: see Goos et al. (1977).

Fig. 1 Chlamydospores of Xylomyces spp. (re-drawn from Figs. 1–5 in Goh et al. 1997). a X. chlamydosporis. b X. elegans. c X. giganteus. d X. punctatus. e X. pusillus. Scale bar = 50 µm.

Importance and distribution

Xylomyces comprises eight species known on submerged decaying and rotten leaves, rotten wood in tidal river water, on leaves of Quercus oleoides subsp. sagrana (Fagaceae) and on washed-up prop root of Rhizophora mangle (Rhizophoraceae) in Asia (Hong Kong), Australia (Queensland), North America (Caribbean (Cuba), the United States), Europe (Martinique Island, Ukraine) and South America (Brazil).

 

 

 

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