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Syncarpella tumefaciens

Syncarpella tumefaciens (Ellis & Harkn.) Theiss. & Syd., Annls mycol. 13(5/6): 633 (1915).

≡ Sphaeria tumefaciens Ellis & Harkn., in Ellis & Everhart, J. Mycol. 2(4): 41 (1886).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 229427; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11482, Fig. 1

Description: see Doilom et al. (2013).

Material considered: see Doilom et al. (2013).

Fig. 1 Syncarpella tumefaciens (NY, 1677, holotype). a, b Appearance of ascomata on host substrate. c Section through ascomata. d Peridium. e Ascus. f–i Ascospores. Scale bars: c = 200 μm, d = 20 μm, e–i = 5 μm.

Importance and distribution

There are ten Syncarpella epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but three species, S. heliopsidis, S. occidentalis and S. tuberculiformis have been transferred to Cucurbitaria, Gibberidea and Plowrightia respectively. Syncarpella comprises seven species known on several host plants such as Artemisia sp. (Asteraceae), Celtis tala (Cannabaceae), Eupatorium tinctorium (Asteraceae), Haplopappus sp. (Asteraceae), Maytenus ligustrina (Celastraceae), Ribes wolfii (Grossulariaceae). Syncarpella is distributed in South America (Argentina (Buenos Aires, Misiones), Paraguay) and The United States (California, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming). Syncarpella missionum forms black carbonaceous stromata on living twigs of Maytenus lingustrina in South America (Argentina) (Stevenson 1926).

 

References

Barr ME, Boise JR. 1989 – Syncarpella (Pleosporales, Cucurbitariaceae). Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 49, 298–304.

Clements FE, Shear CL. 1931– Genera of fungi. 2nd edn. H. W. Wilson Company, New York.

Doilom M, Liu JK, Jaklitsch WM, Ariyawansa HA et al. 2013 – An outline of the family Cucurbitariaceae. Sydowia 65, 167–192.

Ramaley AWB, Barr ME. 1997 – Syncarpella ribis sp. nov. and its anamorph, Syntholus ribis gen. et sp. nov. Mycotaxon 65, 499–506.

Stevenson JA. 1926 – Foreign plant diseases. A manual of economic plant diseases which are new or not widely distributed in the United States. United States Department of Agriculture, Federal Horticulture Board: Washington DC.

Theissen F, Sydow H. 1915 – Die Dothideales. Kritisch-systematische Originaluntersuchungen. Annales Mycologici 13, 147–746.

Wijayawardene NN, Crous PW, Kirk PM, Hawksworth DL et al. 2014 – Naming and outline of Dothideomycetes–2014 including proposals for the protection or suppression of generic names. Fungal Diversity 69, 1–55.

 

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