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Lophium mytilinum

Lophium mytilinum (Pers.) Fr., Observ. mycol. (Havniae) 2: 345 (1818).

≡ Hysterium mytilinum Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 1: 97 (1801).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 208105; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11447, Fig. 1

Description: see Boehm et al. (2009); Mathiassen et al. (2014).

Material examined: see Boehm et al. (2009); Mathiassen et al. (2014).

Fig. 1 Lophium mytilinum (CBS 123344 (BPI 878736), re-drawn from Fig.11 in Boehm et al. 2009). a Hysterothecia. b Ascus. c Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 500 μm, b, c = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

There are 26 Lophium epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but several species have been transferred to other genera such as Glyphium, Lophodermium, Mytilinidion, Ostreichnion, Ostropa, Sigarispora and Zoggium. Lophium comprises six species known on wide range of host plants such as Abies fraseri (Pinaceae), Arctostaphylos patula (Ericaceae), Chamaecyparis lawsoniana (Cupressaceae), Citrus limonum (Rutaceae), Cupressus glabra (Cupressaceae), Dryas crenulata (Rosaceae), Eriophorum vaginatum (Cyperaceae), Fagus sp. (Fagaceae), Juncus balticus var. montanus (Juncaceae), Juniperus communis (Cupressaceae), Larix decidua (Pinaceae), Lonicera involucrata (Caprifoliaceae), Picea glauca (Pinaceae), Pinus sp. (Pinaceae), Pseudotsuga menziesii (Pinaceae), Salix alaxensis (Salicaceae) and Tillandsia fasciculata (Bromeliaceae). Lophium has a wide geographical distribution including Asia (China, Russia), Europe (Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, United Kingdom), Oceania (New Zealand), South America (Argentina, Canada, Chile) and the United States (Alaska, California, Florida, North Carolina, Oregon).

 

References 

 

Boehm EWA, Mugambi GKM, Miller AN, Huhndorf SM et al. 2009 – A molecular phylogenetic reappraisal of the Hysteriaceae, Mytilinidiaceae and Gloniaceae (Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes) with keys to world species. Studies in Mycology 64, 49–83.

Fries EM. 1818 – Observationes mycologicae. Gerh Bonnier Copenhagen 2, 1–372.

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

Mathiassen G, Granmo A, Rämä T. 2015 – Lophium elegans (Ascomycota), a rare European species. Mycotaxon 129, 433–438.

Zogg H. 1962 – Die Hysteriaceae s. str. und Lophiaceae, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der mitteleuropäischen Formen. Beiträge zur Kryptogamenflora der Schweiz Band 11, 1–190.

 

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