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Phragmotrichum chailletii

Phragmotrichum chailletii Kunze, in Kunze & Schmidt, Mykologische Hefte (Leipzig) 2: 84 (1823).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 9376; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11605, Fig. 1

Description: see Crous et al. (2019).

Material considered: see Crous et al. (2019).

Fig. 1 Phragmotrichum chailletii (CPC 33263, re-drawn from Fig. 13 in Crous et al. 2019). a Cupulate conidiomata. b Section through conidioma. c Conidiogenous cells giving rise to conidia. d–g Conidial chains. Scale bars: a = 200 μm, b–g = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

There are nine Phragmotrichum epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but two species have been transferred to Coniothecium and Trimmatostroma. Phragmotrichum has wide host distribution such as Acer sp. (Sapindaceae), Alnus sp. (Betulaceae), Betula pendula (Betulaceae), Duschekia kamtschatica (Betulaceae), Rhus typhina (Anacardiaceae), Salix sp. (Salicaceae), Strobilanthes sp. (Acanthaceae). Phragmotrichum is known from Asia (India, Russia), Europe (Poland, Romania, Switzerland, United Kingdom), North America (Canada, The United States (Washington)) and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

 

Reference

Crous PW, Schumacher RK, Wood AR, Groenewald JZ. 2019 – The Genera of Fungi – G5: Arthrinium, Ceratosphaeria, Dimerosporiopsis, Hormodochis, Lecanostictopsis, Lembosina, Neomelanconium, Phragmotrichum, Pseudomelanconium, Rutola, and Trullula. FUSE 5, 77– 98.

 

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