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Piricauda uleana

Piricauda uleana (Sacc. & P. Syd.) Bubák, Annls mycol. 12(2): 218 (1914).

≡ Stigmella uleana Sacc. & P. Syd., Atti del Congr. bot. di Palermo: 57 (1902).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 248955; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11198, Fig. 1

Description: see Moore (1958).

Material considered: see Moore (1958).

Fig. 1 Conidiophores and conidia of Piricauda spp. (re-drawn from Figs. 2, 3 in Sierra et al. 2005). a P. cubensis (HACM 5835). b P. paraguayensis (re-drawn from Ellis 1971). Scale bars = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

There are 52 Piricauda epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but several species have been transferred to other genera such as Acrodictys, Dicoccum, Ernakulamia, Monodictys, Oncopodiella, Pithomyces, Pseudopithomyces, Psiloglonium, Pulvinula, Sarcinella, Sporidesmium and Trichomatomyces. Piricauda comprises 30 species known on wide range of hosts in Africa (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Seychelles), Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia), North America (Caribbean, Mexico, the United States) and South America (Brazil, Paraguay). Piricauda is a diverse genus and more species must be collected and sequenced to verify the status of the genus. Species of Piricauda are saprobic on leaves helping in decomposition of organic matter. They may be pathogenic but the pathogenicity status has not been confirmed.

 

References

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Ellis MB. 1971 – Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, UK.

Ellis MB. 1976 – More Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, Surrey, England.

Hughes SJ. 1960 – Microfungi VI. Piricauda Bubak. Canadian Journal of Botany 38, 921–925.

Johnson TW. 1958 – Some lignicolous marine fungi from the North Carolina coast. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 74, 42–48.

Mercado Sierra A, Guarro J, Heredia G. 2005 – The hyphomycete genus Piricauda, with the description of a new species. Mycological Research 109, 723–728.

Moore RT. 1959 – The genus Piricauda (deuteromycetes). Rhodora 61, 87–120.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Al-Ani LKT, Tedersoo L et al. 2020 – Outline of Fungi and fungi-like taxa. Mycosphere 11, 1060–1456.

 

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