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Protoventuria rosae

Protoventuria rosae (De Not.) Berl. & Sacc., Atti Soc. Veneto-Trent. Sci. Nat. 10(1): 174 (1886).

Index Fungorum number: IF 121308; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12065, Fig. 1

Description: see Carris and Poole (1993); Zhang et al. (2011); Shen et al. (2020).

Material examined: see Carris and Poole (1993); Zhang et al. (2011); Shen et al. (2020).

Fig. 1 Protoventuria hennessyi (IMl 181191, holotype, re-drawn from Fig. 1 in Sivanesen 1974). a Vertical section of pseudothecium on host leaf. b Asci. c Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 100 µm, b = 20 µm.

Importance and distribution

There are 45 Protoventuria epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but several species have been transferred to Antennularia, Gaillardiella, Gibbera, Metacapnodium, Periline and Venturia. Protoventuria comprises 19 species known on Cercocarpus ledifolius (Rosaceae), Ctenidium molluscum (Hypnaceae), Erica tetralix (Ericaceae), Ericinella mannii (Ericaceae), Juniperus sibirica (Cupressaceae), leaves and branches of Ledum groenlandicum (Ericaceae), Rhododendron albiflorum (Ericaceae) and Vaccinium macrocarpon (Ericaceae). Protoventuria is reported from Africa (Tanzania), Asia (Kazakhstan), Australia (New South Wales), Europe (Sweden, France) and North America (Canada, Caribbean (Jamaica), the United States).