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Xenolophium leve

Xenolophium leve Syd., Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii 19: 97 (1925).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 535640; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11844, Fig. 1

Description: see Bell and Mahoney (2008).

Material considered: see Bell and Mahoney (2008).

 

Fig. 1 Xenolophium pseudotrichioides (PDD 92344, holotype, re-drawn from Fig. 2 in Bell & Mahoney 2008). a Stroma in wood beneath ascomata. b Details of ostiolar region. c Mature ascus, ascospores and pseudoparaphyses. d Ascospores and part spores. e Mature ascospores and ascus tip. f Ascus tips after ascospore discharge. Scale bars: a, b = 1 mm, c−f = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Xenolophium comprises seven species known on bark of Metrosideros (Myrtaceae) and Knightia excelsa (Proteaceae). Xenolophium is reported from Europe (French Guiana), New Zealand, Asia and the United States (Hawaiian Island). Xenolophium verrucosum has been transferred to Ostropella.

 

References

Bell A, Mahoney DP. 2008 – Two new and interesting woody decay Ascomycetes: Xenolophium pseudotrichioides sp. nov. and Xenolophium lanuginosum sp. nov. from New Zealand. Australasian Mycologist 27, 13–19.

Chesters CGC, Bell A. 1970 – Studies in the Lophiostomataceae Sacc. Mycological Papers 120, 1–55.

Huhndorf SM. 1993 – Neotropical ascomycetes 3. Reinstatement of the genus Xenolophium and two new species from French Guiana. Mycologia 85, 490–502.

Müller E, Arx JA, von. 1962 – Die Gattungen der didymosporen Pyrenomyceten. Beiträge zur Kryptogamenflora der Schweiz 11, 1–922.

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

 

 

 

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