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Exosporiella fungorum

Exosporiella fungorum (Fr.) P. Karst., Finlands mögelsvampar, (Hyphomycetes fennici): 161 (1892).

            ≡ Epochnium fungorum Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 3(2): 449 (1832).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 119016; Facesoffungi number: FoF 01025, Fig. 1, 2

Description: see Tian et al. (2015).

Material examined: see Tian et al. (2015).

Fig. 1 Exosporiella fungorum (redrawn from Seifert et al. 2011).

 Fig. 2 Exosporiella fungorum (isotype of Anomalemma epochnii). a Specimens and herbarium label of Anomalemma epochnii. b Appearance of ascomata on the host surface. c, d Vertical section through peridium. Note the conidiogenous cell and conidia grouped on the adjacent stroma (arrowed in c). e Trabeculate pseudoparaphyses. f, g Asci. h, i Ascospores. j, k Conidiogenous cells. l, m Conidia. Scale bars: b = 500 μm, c = 20 μm, d = 10 μm, e–m = 5 μm.

Importance and distribution

Exosporiella comprises only one species known on the fungus Epochnium fungorum Fr. (Sclerotiniaceae) on bark in Europe (United Kingdom (England)).

 

References

Ellis JB. 1883 – New species of North American fungi. The American Midland Naturalist Journal 17, 194–196.

Ellis MB. 1971 – Dematiaceous hyphomycetes. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew.

Keissler K. 1922 – Mykologische mitteilungen. Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 35, 1–35.

Massee G. 1887 – British pyrenomycetes. Grevillea 16, 34–39.

Saccardo PA. 1878 – Fungi Italici autographice delineati a Prof. P.A. Saccardo. Patavii 1878. Michelia 1, 326–350.

Seifert KA, Morgan-Jones G, Gams W, Kendrick B. 2011 – The Genera of Hyphomycetes. Biodiversity Series 9, Utrecht. CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre.

Sivanesan A. 1983 – Studies on ascomycetes. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 81, 313–332.

Tian Q, Liu JK, Hyde KD, Wanasinghe DN et al. 2015 – Phylogenetic relationships and morphological reappraisal of Melanommataceae (Pleosporales). Fungal Diversity 74, 267–324.

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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