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Acrotheca gei

Acrotheca gei Fuckel, Jb. nassau. Ver. Naturk. 15: 43 (1860).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 145838; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11237, Fig. 1

Description: see Hughes 1951; Braun (1998, as Ramularia gei, page 246).

Material examined: see Hughes 1951; Braun (1998, as Ramularia gei, page 246).

Fig. 1 Acrotheca gei (= Ramularia gei, re-drawn from Fig. 526 in Braun 1998). a Conidiophores. b Conidia.

Importance and distribution

There are 14 Acrotheca epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but several species have been transferred to other genera such as Cylindrotrichum, Fonsecaea, Gomphinaria, Neta, Periconiella, Pleurophragmium, Pseudocercospora, Rhinocladiella and Zasmidium. Acrotheca comprises five species known on rotten wood of Abies alba (Pinaceae), leaves of Pyrus melanocarpa (Rosaceae), rotten wood of Populus alba (Salicaceae) and withered fruit of Fagus sylvatica (Fagaceae). Acrotheca is reported only from Europe (Italy) and North America (Canada). Fresh collections are needed as molecular data is lacking.

 

References

Braun U. 1998 – A monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and allied genera (phytopathogenic hyphomycetes): Vol. 1. IHW-Verlag, Eching, Munich, Germany.

Hughes SJ. 1951 – Studies on micro-fungi. V. Acrotheca. Mycological Papers 38, 1–8.

Hughes SJ. 1953– Some foliicolous hyphomycetes. Canadian Journal of Botany 31, 565–576.

Videira SIR, Groenewald JZ, Braun U, Shin HD, Crous PW. 2016 – All that glitters is not Ramularia. Studies in Mycology 83, 49–163.

 

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