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Cheiromoniliophora elegans

Cheiromoniliophora elegans Tzean & J.L. Chen, Mycol. Res. 94(3): 424 (1990).

= Pseudodictyosporium elegans (Tzean & J.L. Chen) R. Kirschner, Mycol. Progr. 12(1): 32 (2013).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 126534; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11790, Fig. 1 

Description: see Tzean and Chen (1990); Tsui et al. (2006).

Material considered: see Tzean and Chen (1990); Tsui et al. (2006).

Fig. 1 Cheiromoniliophora elegans (re-drawn from Plate 289A in Seifert et al. 2011).

Importance and distribution

Cheiromoniliophora comprises two species known on rotten leaf of Laurus canariensis (Lauraceae) in Africa (Canary Island) and on fallen stem in Asia (China (Taiwan)).

 

References

Damon SC. 1950 – A taxonomic consideration of two cheirosporous genera, Cheiromyces and Pedilospora. Mycologia 42, 554–562.

Ellis MB. 1971 – Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, UK.

Seifert K, Morgan-Jones G, Gams W, Kendrick B. 2011 – The genera of hyphomycetes. CBS Biodiversity Series no. 9: 1–997. CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Tsui CKM, Berbee ML, Jeewon R, Hyde KD. 2006 – Molecular phylogeny of Dictyosporium and allied genera inferred from ribosomal DNA. Fungal Diversity 21, 157–166.

Tzean S, Chen J. 1990 – Cheiromoniliophora elegans gen. et sp. nov. (Hyphomycetes). Mycological Research 94, 424–427.

 

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