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Megalotremis verrucosa

Megalotremis verrucosa (Makhija & Patw.) Aptroot, Biblthca Lichenol. 44: 126 (1991).

≡ Ditremis verrucosa Makhija & Patw., Mycotaxon 31(2): 469 (1988).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 359163; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11957, Fig. 1

Description: see Hongsanan et al. (2020b).

Material considered: see Hongsanan et al. (2020b).

 

Fig. 1 Ascospore of Megalotremis verrucosa (≡ Ditremis verrucosa, AMH, holotype).

Importance and distribution

Megalotremis species are lichenized and comprises sixteen species known on bark, trunks or detritus. Megalotremis is reported from Asia (Andaman Island, Japan, Sri Lanka), Oceania (Australia, Papua New Guinea), Central America (Costa Rica) and Europe (France, New Caledonia).

 

References

Aptroot A, Lücking R, Sipman HJM, Umaña L, Chaves JL. 2008 − Pyrenocarpous lichens with bitunicate asci: a first assessment of the lichen biodiversity inventory in Costa Rica. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 97, 1–162.

Aptroot A. 1991 – A monograph of the Pyrenulaceae (excluding Anthracothecium and Pyrenula) and the Requienellaceae, with notes on the Pleomassariaceae, the Trypetheliaceae and Mycomicrothelia (lichenized and non-lichenized Ascomycetes). Bibliotheca Lichenologica 44, 1–178.

Harris RC. 1995 − More Florida lichens. Including the 10c tour of the pyrenolichens. The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx.

Hongsanan S, Hyde KD, Phookamsak R, Wanasinghe DN et al. 2020b − Refined families of Dothideomycetes: orders and families incertae sedis in Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 105, 17–318.

 

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