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Endococcus rugulosus

Endococcus rugulosus Nyl., Mém. Soc. Imp. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 3: 193 (1855).

=Verrucaria rugulosa Borrer ex Leight., Brit. Sp. Ang. Lich.: 47 (1851).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 119447; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00559, Fig. 1

Description: see Jayasiri et al. (2016).

Material considered: see Jayasiri et al. (2016).

Fig. 1 Endococcus rugulosus (K(M): 155758, isotype). a Herbarium material. b Appearance of ascomata on host substrate. c Section through ascomata. d Peridium. e, f Asci with ascospores. g–i Ascospores. Scale bars: c = 50 μm, d, g–i = 10 μm, e, f = 20 μm.

Importance and distribution

There are 77 Endococcus epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but several species have been transferred to Cercidospora, Didymocyrtis, Didymosphaeria, Leptosphaerulina, Muellerella, Phaeospora, Polycoccum, Rosellinula, Sphaerellothecium, Staurothele, Stigmidium, Tichothecium, Verrucaria and Zwackhiomyces. Endococcus comprises 40 species known on a wide range of plants such as Aspicilia sp. (Megasporaceae), Fritzea lamprophora (Psoraceae), Huilia sp. (Asteraceae), Lecidea sp. (Lecideaceae), Lobaria sp. (Lobariaceae), Rhizocarpon sp. (Rhizocarpaceae), Usnea sp. (Parmeliaceae), and Xanthoria parietina (Teloschistaceae). Endococcus is reported from Central America (Panama) and Europe (Poland, United Kingdom).

 

References

Hawksworth DL. 1979 – Studies in the genus Endococcus (Ascomycotina, Dothideales). Botaniska Notiser 132, 283–290.

Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Liu JK, Ariyawansa H et al. 2013 – Families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 63, 1–313.

Jayasiri SC, Ariyawansa HA, Jones EG, Kang J, Promputtha I, Bahkali AH, Hyde KD. 2016 – Towards a natural classification of Dothideomycetes: 8. The genera Cocconia, Dianesea, Endococcus and Lineostroma. Phytotaxa 255, 66–74. DOI:10.11646/PHYTOTAXA.255.1.6

Kocourková, J. 2000 [1999] – Lichenicolous fungi of the Czech Republic. (The first commented checklist). Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B: Historia Naturalis 55, 59–169.

Lumbsch HT, Huhndorf SM. 2010 – Outline of Ascomycota 2009. Myconet 14, 1–64.

Sérusiaux E, Diederich P, Brand AM, van den Boom P. 1999 – New or interesting lichens and lichenicolous fungi from Belgium and Luxembourg. VIII. Lejeunia NS 162, 1–95.

 

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