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Semidelitschia agasmatica

Semidelitschia agasmatica Cain & Luck-Allen, Mycologia 61: 581 (1969).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 339093; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11490, Fig. 1

Description: see Cain and Luck-Allen (1969); Zhang et al. (2012).

Material considered: see Cain and Luck-Allen (1969); Zhang et al. (2012).

Fig. 1 Semidelitschia agasmatica (TRTC 40697, holotype). a Immersed ascomata scattered on the surface of the substrate. b, c Asci. d–h Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 0.5 mm, b, c = 100 μm, d–h = 20 μm.

Importance and distribution 

Semidelitschia comprises three species. Semidelitschia agasmatica is known on dung of Bos taurus (Bovidae) in The United States (South Dakota). S. nanostellata is known on dung of Macropus rufogriseus (Macropodidae) in Australia (Tasmania) and S. tetraspora is reported on dung of Capra aegagrus hircus (Bovidae) in Asia (Pakistan).

 

References

Cain RF, Luck-Allen ER. 1969 – Semidelitschia, a new genus of the Sporormiaceae. Mycologia 61, 580–585.

Zhang Y, Crous PW, Schoch CL, Hyde KD. 2012 – Pleosporales. Fungal Diversity 53, 1–221.

Lumbsch HT, Huhndorf SM. 2007 – Outline of ascomycota–2007. Myconet 13, 1–58.

Barr ME. 2000 – Notes on coprophilous bitunicate Ascomycetes. Mycotaxon 76, 105–112.

 

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