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Zopfia rhizophila

Zopfia rhizophila Rabenh., Fungi europ. exsicc., Cent. 13: no. 44 (1874).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 209329; Facesoffungi number: FoF 08391, Fig. 1

Description: see Zhang et al. (2012); Hyde et al. (2013).

Material considered: see Zhang et al. (2012); Hyde et al. (2013).

Fig. 1 Zopfia rhizophila (IMI 175866, type). a Specimen. b, c Appearance of ascomata on host substrate. d Section through ascoma. e Pseudoparaphyses. f Peridium. g Asci. h–j Ascospores. Scale bars: b = 200 μm, c = 500 μm, d, f = 100 μm, e, h–j = 20 μm, g = 50 μm.

Importance and distribution

There are 15 Zopfia epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but several species have been transferred to Celtidia, Lepidosphaeria, Neotestudina, Pontoporeia, Rechingeriella, Richonia, Testudina, Ulospora and Zopfiofoveola. Zopfia comprises five species known on roots of Albizia lebbeck (Fabaceae), Carex firma (Cyperaceae), soil of Juniperus wood (Cupressaceae), dry roots of Asparagus (Asparagaceae) and sea water on bark of Coniferae (Cupressaceae). Zopfia is reported from Asia (Japan, Pakistan), Europe (Austria, Germany) and The United States (Texas).

 

References

Arnaud G. 1913 – Sur les genres Zopfia, Richonia et Caryospora. Bulletin trimestriel de la Société mycologique de France 29, 253–260.

Hawksworth DL, Booth C. 1974 – A revision of the genus Zopfia Rabenh. Mycological Papers 135, 1–38.

Hawksworth DL. 1979 – Ascospore sculpturing and generic concepts in the Testudinaceae (syn. Zopfiaceae). Canadian Journal of Botany 57, 91–99.

Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Liu JK, Ariyawansa H et al. 2013 – Families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 63, 1–313.

Kruys A, Eriksson OE, Wedin M. 2006 – Phylogenetic relationships of coprophilous Pleosporales (Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota), and the classification of some bitunicate taxa of unknown position. Mycological Research 110, 527–536.

Saccardo PA. 1882 – Sylloge Fungorum 1, Padova, p 766.

Schoch CL, Crous PW, Groenewald JZ, Boehm EWA et al. 2009 – A class-wide phylogenetic assessment of Dothideomycetes. Studies in Mycology 64, 1–15.

Winter G. 1887 – Ascomyceten. Rab Krypt Flora 1(2), 1–928.

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

 

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