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Pleotrichocladium opacum

Pleotrichocladium opacum (Corda) Hern. -Restr., R.F. Castañeda & Gené, in Hernández-Restrepo et al., Stud. Mycol. 86: 75 (2017).

≡ Sporidesmium opacum Corda, Icon. fung. (Prague) 1: 7 (1837).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 820278; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11606, Fig. 1

Description: see Hernandez-Restrepo et al. (2017).

Material considered: see Hernandez-Restrepo et al. (2017).

Fig. 1 Pleotrichocladium opacum (FMR 12416 ex-epitype, re-drawn from Fig. 10 in Hernandez-Restrepo et al. 2017). a–d Conidiophores and conidia. Scale bars = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Pleotrichocladium comprises only one species known on dead branch of Rubus (Rosaceae), soil, dead wood of Thuja occidentalis (Cupressaceae) in Europe.

 

References

Corda ACJ. – 1837. Vol. 1. (Icones Fungorum hucusque Cognitorum). i–iv, 1–32, plates 1–7. Prague.

Hernández-Restrepo M, Gené J, Castañeda-Ruiz RF, Mena-Portales J et al. 2017 – Phylogeny of saprobic microfungi from Southern Europe. Studies in Mycology 86, 53–97.

Hughes SJ. 1952 – Trichocladium Harz. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 35, 152–157.

Hughes SJ. 1958 – Revisiones Hyphomycetum aliquot cum appendice de nominibus rejiciendis. Canadian Journal of Botany 36, 727–836.

Mantle PG, Hawksworth DL, Pazoutova S. 2006 – Amorosia littoralis gen. sp. nov., a new genus and species name for the scorpinone and caffeine-producing hyphomycete from the littoral zone in The Bahamas. Mycological Research 110, 1371–1378.

 

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