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Eudarluca australis

Eudarluca australis Speg., Revta Mus. La Plata 15(2): 22 (1908).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 139810; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00246, Fig. 1

Description: see Phookamsak et al. (2014).

Material considered: see Phookamsak et al. (2014).

Fig. 1 Eudarluca australis (S-F11420, isotype). a Herbarium label and specimens. b Appearance of ascomata on host surface. c Section through ascomata. d Peridium. e, f Asci with ascospores. g–i Ascospores. Scale bars: c = 100 μm, d–f = 20 μm, g–i = 5 μm.

Importance and distribution

Eudarluca comprises nine species known on Andropogon sp. (Poaceae), Brachiaria mutica (Poaceae), Canna sp. (Cannaceae), Ctenium sp. (Poaceae), Cyperus picardae (Cyperaceae), Heteropogon contortus (Poaceae), Puccinia sp. (Pucciniaceae), Rottboellia exaltata (Poaceae), Schroeteriaster crotonis (Euphorbiaceae), Sorghum sp. (Poaceae), Thalia geniculata (Marantaceae) and Zea mays (Poaceae). Eudarluca is recorded from Africa (Ghana, Guinea, Mauritius), Asia (Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan), Europe (Austria, France (New Caledonia), Oceania (Samoa) and South America (Caribbean (Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela).

 

References

Bayon C, Yuan ZW, Ruiz C, Liesebach M, Pei MH. 2006 – Genetic diversity in the mycoparasite Sphaerellopsis filum inferred from AFLP analysis and ITS–5.8S sequences. Mycological Research 110, 1200–1206.

Eriksson OE. 1966 – On Eudarluca caricis (Fr.) O. Erikss., comb. nov., a cosmopolitan uredinicolous pyrenomycete. Botaniska Notiser 119, 33–69.

Nischwitz C, Newcombe G, Anderson LC. 2005 – Host specialization of the mycoparasite Eudarluca caricis and its evolutionary relationship to Ampelomyces. Mycological Research 109, 421–428.

Phookamsak R, Liu JK, McKenzie EH, Manamgoda DS et al. 2014 – Revision of Phaeosphaeriaceae. Fungal Diversity 68, 159–238.

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.

Yuan ZW, Pei MH, Hunter T, Royle DJ. 1998 – Eudarluca caricis, the teleomorph of the mycoparasite Sphaerellopsis filum, on blackberry rust Phragmidium violaceum. Mycological Research 102, 866–868.

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

 

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