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Kamalomyces indicus

Kamalomyces indicus R.K. Verma, N. Sharma & Soni, Forest Fungi of Central India: 196 (2008).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 512511; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12022, Fig. 1

Description: see Boonmee et al. (2011).

Material considered: see Boonmee et al. (2011).

Fig. 1 Kamalomyces indicus (TFRI, holotype). a Herbarium label. b Appearance of ascomata on host substrate. c Ascomata in subiculum on substrate. d. Section through ascoma. e Peridium. f Pseudoparaphyses. g Asci. h–j Ascospores. Scale bars: b–d, g = 100 μm, e = 10 μm, f = 5 μm, h–j = 50 μm.

Importance and distribution

Kamalomyces comprises six species known on dead bamboo stems, dead culms of Dendrocalamus strictus (Poaceae), submerged decaying wood in mangrove (Rhizophoraceae) and dead stems of Bambusae (Poaceae). Kamalomyces is reported from Asia (Andaman Island, India, and Thailand).

 

Reference

Boonmee S, Zhang Y, Chomnunti P, Chukeatirote E, Tsui CKM, Bahkali AH, Hyde KD. 2011 – Revision of lignicolous Tubeufiaceae based on morphological reexamination and phylogenetic analysis. Fungal Diversity 51, 63–102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-011-0147-4

 

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