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Ophiobolopsis italica

Ophiobolopsis italica Phookamsak, Wanas., Camporesi & K.D. Hyde, in Phookamsak et al., Fungal Diversity 87: 317 (2017).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 553919; Facesoffungi number: FoF 03797, Fig. 1

Description: see Phookamsak et al. (2017).

Material considered: see Phookamsak et al. (2017).

Fig. 1 Ophiobolopsis italica (MFLU 17-0924, holotype). a Appearance of ascomata on the host surface. b Section through ascoma. c Section through peridium. d Pseudoparaphyses. e−g Asci. h−l Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 200 μm, b = 100 μm, c = 50 μm, d, h−l = 10 μm, e−g = 20 μm.

Importance and distribution

Ophiobolopsis comprises only one species known on Ononis spinosa (Fabaceae) in Europe (Italy).

 

Reference

Phookamsak R, Wanasinghe DN, Hongsanan S, Phukhamsakda C et al. 2017 – Towards a natural classification of Ophiobolus and ophiobolus-like taxa; introducing three novel genera Ophiobolopsis, Paraophiobolus and Pseudoophiobolus in Phaeoshaeriaceae (Pleosporales). Fungal Diversity 87, 299–339.

 

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