Scolicosporium fagi
Scolicosporium fagi Lib. ex Roum., in Roumeguère, Revue mycol., Toulouse 2(1): 22 (1880).
Index Fungorum number: IF 120446; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11650, Fig. 1
Description: see Wijayawardene et al. (2013, 2016).
Material considered: see Wijayawardene et al. (2013, 2016).
Fig. 1 Scolicosporium fagi (MFLU 15–3457 = HKAS 92554). a Appearance of matured sporodochium-like conidiomata on host substrate. b Section through conidiomata. c, d Conidia attach to conidiophores. e–h Conidia. Scale bars: b–d = 100 μm, e–h = 50 μm.
Importance and distribution
There are 11 Scolicosporium epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but several species have been transferred to Asteromassaria, Lecanostictopsis and Scolecosporiella. Scolicosporium comprises five species known on Castanea dentata (Fagaceae), Cryptomeria japonica (Taxodiaceae), Fagus sp. (Fagaceae), Malus sylvestris (Rosaceae), Nothofagus antarctica (Nothofagaceae), Olea europaea (Oleaceae), Phoebe paniculata (Lauraceae), Pyrus sp. (Rosaceae), Quercus sp. (Fagaceae), Syzygium guineense (Myrtaceae) and Typha latifolia (Typhaceae). Scolicosporium has wide distribution such as Africa (Ethiopia), Asia (India, Japan), Europe (Austria, Belgium, Poland, United Kingdom), South America (Chile) and The United States (Florida, New York, Pennsylvania).
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