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Bathelium mastoideum

Bathelium mastoideum Afzel. ex Ach., Methodus, Sectio prior (Stockholmiæ): 111 (1803).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 378653; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12010, Fig. 1

Description: see Nelsen et al. (2014); Aptroot and Lücking (2016).

Material considered: see Nelsen et al. (2014); Aptroot and Lücking (2016).

Fig. 1 Habit of Bathelium mastoideum (buck43891_7432)

Fig. 2 Ascospores of Bathelium nigroporum (re-drawn from Fig. 9F in Aptroot and Lücking 2016). Scale bar = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

There are 49 Bathelium epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but several species have been transferred to Astrothelium, Laurera, Marcelaria, Phyllobathelium, Pyrenula and Trypethelium. Bathelium comprises 16 species known on Citrus aurantiifolia (Rutaceae), bark of Byrsonima spicata (Malpighiaceae) and bark of Ochthocosmus africanus (Ixonanthaceae). Bathelium is reported from Africa (Sierra Leone), Asia (India, Vietnam) and South America (Bolivia, Brazil).

 

References

Aptroot A, Lücking R. 2016 – A revisionary synopsis of the Trypetheliaceae (Ascomycota: Trypetheliales). Lichenologist 48, 763–982.

Harris RC. 1995 – More Florida Lichens: Including the 10c Tour of the Pyrenolichens. Bronx, New York: Privately Published.

Massalongo AB. 1860 – Esame comparativo di alcuni generi di licheni. Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti Serie 3, 5 313–337.

Nelsen MP, Lücking R, Aptroot A, Andrew CJ et al. 2014 – Elucidating phylogenetic relationships and genus-level classification within the fungal family Trypetheliaceae (Ascomycota: Dothideomycetes). Taxon 63, 974–992.

Trevisan V. 1853 – Caratteri essenziali di dodici nuovi generi di Licheni. In Spighe e Paglie, Scritti Botanici Varii. I (V. Trevisan, ed.), 7–20. Padova, Sicca.

 

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