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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).

 

References

Campbell J, Ferrer A, Raja HA, Sivichai S, Shearer CA. 2007 – Phylogenetic relationships among taxa in the Jahnulales inferred from 18S and 28S nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences. Canadian Journal of Botany 85, 873–882.

Goos RD, Brooks RD, Lamore BJ. 1977– An undescribed hyphomycete from wood submerged in a Rhode Island stream. Mycologia 69, 280–286.

Sivichai S, Sri-Indrasutdhi V, Jones EBG. 2011– Jahnula aquatica and its anamorph Xylomyces chlamydosporus on submerged wood in Thailand. Mycotaxon 116, 137–142.

 

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