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Quadricrura septentrionalis

Quadricrura septentrionalis Kaz. Tanaka, K. Hiray. & Sat. Hatak., in Tanaka et al., Stud. Mycol. 64: 198 (2009).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 515272; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11754, Fig. 1

Description: see Tanaka et al. (2009).

Material considered: see Tanaka et al. (2009).

Fig. 1 Quadricrura septentrionalis (a, b, c, e re-drawn from Fig. 15 in Tanaka et al. 2009; d re-drawn from Plate 349D in Seifert et al. 2011). a Conidia on agar piece immersed in water. b Conidial body comprising internal hyphoid structure. c Spermatia. d Conidia. e Colonies on PDA. Scale bars: a = 100 μm, b = 10 μm, c = 2 μm.

Importance and distribution

Quadricrura comprises three species. Quadricrura bicornis is reported on leaf litter of conifer in Asia (Japan (Honshu)), Q. meridionalis is known on culms of bamboo (Poaceae) in Asia (Japan (Nansei-Shoto)) and Q. septentrionalis has been found on culms of Sasa kurilensis (Poaceae) in Asia (Japan (Honshu)).

 

References

Chen JL, Tzean SS. 1993 – Megacapitula villosa gen. et sp. nov. from Taiwan. Mycological Research 97, 347–350.

Ellis MB. 1976 – More dematiaceous hyphomycetes. Commonwealth Mycological Institute. Kew, Surrey, England.

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.

Tanaka K, Hirayama K, Yonezawa H, Hatakeyama S et al. 2009 – Molecular taxonomy of bambusicolous fungi: Tetraplosphaeriaceae, a new pleosporalean family with Tetraploa-like anamorphs. Studies in Mycology 64, 175–209.

 

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