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Shearia formosa

Shearia magnoliae (Shear) Petr., Annls mycol. 22(1/2): 180 (1924).

≡ Camarosporium magnoliae Shear, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 29: 455 (1902).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 270331; Facesoffungi number: FoF 07747, Fig. 1

Description: see Wanasinghe et al. (2020).

Material considered: see Wanasinghe et al. (2020).

Fig. 1 Shearia formosa (MFLU 19–2368). a Conidiomata observed on host substrate. b Section through ascomata. c Peridium. d–f Conidiogenous cells and developing conidia. g, h Conidia. Scale bars: b = 200 μm, c, f–h = 20 μm, d, e = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Shearia comprises two species known on dead branches of Magnolia sp. (Magnoliaceae) and Acer (Sapindaceae) in Asia (China, Japan) and The United States (Florida, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Washington).

 

References

Petrak F. 1962 – Ergebnisse einer Revision der Grundtypen verschiedener Gattungen der Askomyzeten und Fungi Imperfecti. Sydowia 16(1–6), 353–361.

Sutton BC. 1977 – Coelomycetes VI. Nomenclature of generic names proposed for Coelomycetes. Mycological Papers 141, 1–253.

Sutton BC. 1980 – The Coelomycetes. Fungi imperfecti with pycnidia, acervuli and stromata. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, pp 1–696.

Tanka K, Ooki Y, Hatakeyama S, Harada Y, Barr ME. 2005 – Pleosporales in Japan (5): Pleomassaria, Asteromassaria, and Splanchnonema. Mycoscience 46, 248–260. https://doi.org/10.1007/S10267-005-0245-9

Tubaki K, Murata S, Nakagiri A. 1983 – Materials for the fungus flora of Japan (33). Transactions of the Mycological Society of Japan 24, 121–125. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02268632

Wanasinghe DN, Wijayawardene NN, Xu J, Cheewangkoon R et al. 2020 – Taxonomic novelties in Magnolia-associated pleosporalean fungi in the Kunming Botanical Gardens (Yunnan, China). PLoS ONE 15, e0235855.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Wanasinghe DN, Papizadeh M et al. 2016 – Taxonomy and phylogeny of dematiaceous coelomycetes. Fungal Diversity 77, 1–316.

 

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