Marcelaria purpurina
Marcelaria purpurina (Nyl.) Aptroot, Nelsen & Parnmen, Glalia 5(2): 9 (2013).
≡ Trypethelium purpurinum Nyl., in Leighton, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 25: 459 (1866).
Index Fungorum number: IF 805453; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12014, Fig. 1
Description: see Aptroot et al. (2013); Aptroot and Lücking (2016).
Material examined: see Aptroot et al. (2013); Aptroot and Lücking (2016).
Fig. 1 Habit of Marcelaria purpurina (BOLI boom4 107_ NY 2005).
Fig. 2 Ascospore of Marcelaria purpurina (≡ Trypethelium purpurinum redrawn from Fig. 6 in Nylander 1866).
Importance and distribution
Marcelaria comprises three species known on bark of Byrsonima spicata (Malpighiaceae) in Asia (Philippines) and South America (Brazil (Pará)).
References
Aptroot A, Lücking R. 2016 – A revisionary synopsis of the Trypetheliaceae (Ascomycota: Trypetheliales). Lichenologist 48, 763–982.
Aptroot A, Nepi C. 2017 – Proposal to conserve the name Marcelaria against Buscalionia (Trypetheliaceae, lichenized Ascomycota). Taxon 66, 200–201.
Aptroot A. 2013 – Ecology of the lichen family Trypetheliaceae in Brazil. Livro de Resumos do Sexto Encontro do Grupo Brasileiro de Liquenólogos 1,16.
Hongsanan S, Hyde KD, Phookamsak R, Wanasinghe DN et al. 2020b − Refined families of Dothideomycetes: orders and families incertae sedis in Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 105, 17–318.
Leighton WA. 1866 – Lichenes Amazonici et Andini. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 25, 433–460.
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