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Neoophiobolus chromolaenae

Neoophiobolus chromolaenae Mapook & K.D. Hyde, in Mapook et al., Fungal Diversity 101: 75 (2020).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 557344; Facesoffungi number: FoF 07809, Fig. 1

Description: see Mapook et al. (2020).

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

Fig. 1 Neoophiobolus chromolaenae (MFLU 20-0335, holotype, modified from Fig. 61 in Mapook et al. 2020). a Appearance of superficial ascomata on substrate. b Section through ascoma. c Ostiole. d Peridium. e, f Asci. g, h Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 200 μm, b = 100 μm, c, e, f = 50 μm, d, g, h = 20 μm.

Importance and distribution

Neoophiobolus comprises only one species known on dead stems of Chromolaena odorata (Asteraceae) in Asia (Thailand).

 

Reference

Mapook A, Hyde KD, McKenzie EHC, Gareth Jones EBG et al. 2020 – Taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungi associated with the invasive weed Chromolaena odorata (Siam weed). Fungal Diversity 101, 1–175.

 

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