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Pseudonitschkia parmotrematis

Pseudonitschkia parmotrematis Coppins & S.Y. Kondr., Edinb. J. Bot. 52(2): 232 (1995).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 413981; Facesoffungi number: FoF 04635, Fig. 1

Description: see Doilom et al. (2018).

Material considered: see Doilom et al. (2018).

Fig. 1 Pseudonitschkia parmotrematis (BM 000500107, holotype). a Herbarium label and specimen. b Ascomata on host surface. c Vertical section through ascoma. d Peridium. e–g Asci with ascospores. h, i Ascospores. Scale bars: c = 100 μm, d–g = 20 μm, h, i = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Pseudonitschkia comprises only one species that is lichenicolous and commensal on thallus of Parmotrema tinctorum (Parmeliaceae) in South America (Venezuela).

 

References

Coppins BJ, Kondratyuk SY. 1995 – Stygiomyces and Pseudonitschkia: two new genera of lichenicolous fungi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 52, 229–236.

Doilom M, Hyde KD, Phookamsak R, Dai DQ et al. 2018 – Mycosphere Notes 225–274: types and other specimens of some genera of Ascomycota. Mycosphere 9, 647–754.

Kirk PM, Cannon PF, David JC, Stalpers JA. 2001 – Ainsworth & Bisby’s dictionary of the fungi, 9th edn. CABI, Wallingford.

 

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