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Coleroa chaetomium

Coleroa chaetomium (Kunze) Rabenh., Rabenh. Krypt. -Fl., Edn 2 (Leipzig) 1: 198 (1850).

≡ Dothidea chaetomium Kunze, Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 2(2): 563 (1823).   

Index Fungorum number: IF 232108; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12056, Fig. 1

Description: see Zhang et al. (2011).

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

Fig. 1 Coleroa chaetomium (L11558.38). a Appearance of ascomata on host substrate. b Section through ascomata. c–e Asci. f Ascospore. Scale bars: a = 0.5 mm, b = 50 μm, c–e = 10 μm, f = 5 μm.

Importance and distribution

There are 58 Coleroa epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but numerous species have been transferred to Dimeriella, Epibryon, Epipolaeum, Gibbera, Metacapnodium, Niesslia, Pezicula, Stigmatea, Venturia and Wentiomyces. Coleroa comprises 30 species known on a wide range of plants such as Alchemilla crinite (Rosaceae), Desmodium sp. (Fabaceae), Geranium sp. (Geraniaceae), Hagenia abyssinica (Rosaceae), Kalmia polifolia (Ericaceae), Lebeckia carnosa (Fabaceae), Leptospermum coriaceum (Fabaceae), Linnaea borealis (Caprifoliaceae), Lophozia floerkei (Anastrophyllaceae), Oxyria digyna (Polygonaceae), Pelargonium sp. (Geraniaceae), Petasites formosanus (Asteraceae), Rubus sp. (Rosaceae) and Rumex acetosa (Polygonaceae). Coleroa is reported from Africa (Kenya), Asia (Japan, Philippines), Europe (Denmark, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom), North America and Oceania (New Zealand).

 

References

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

Kirk PM, Stalpers JA, Braun U, Crous PW et al. 2013 – A without-prejudice list of generic names of fungi for protection under the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. IMA Fungus 4, 381–443.

Vu D, Groenewald M, de Vries M, Gehrmann T et al. 2019 – Large-scale generation and analysis of filamentous fungal DNA barcodes boosts coverage for kingdom fungi and reveals thresholds for fungal species and higher taxon delimitation. Studies in Mycology 92, 135–154.

Zhang Y, Crous PW, Schoch CL, Bahkar AH, Guo LD, Hyde KD. 2011 – A molecular, morphological and ecological re-appraisal of Venturiales—a new order of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 51, 249–277.

 

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