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Spilodochium vernoniae

Spilodochium vernoniae Syd., Annls mycol. 25(1/2): 158 (1927).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 281565; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12068, Fig. 1

Description: see Sydow (1927); Etayo and Diederich (1995).

Material considered: see Sydow (1927); Etayo and Diederich (1995).

Fig. 1 Spilodochium vernoniae (re-drawn from Plate 181D in Seifert et al. 2011). a Stroma b A conidial chain (IMI 7361). c−e Conidial chains and conidia. Scale bars = 10 µm.

Importance and distribution

Spilodochium comprises four species known on Acacia crassicarpa (Fabaceae), leaves of Machilus macrantha (Lauraceae), Parmotrema arnoldii on Fagus (Parmeliaceae) and Vernonia sp. (Asteraceae). Spilodochium is reported from Asia (India), Australia, Central America (Costa Rica), Europe (France) and South America (Brazil).

 

References

Etayo J, Diederich P. 1996 – Lichenicolous fungi from the western Pyrenees, France and Spain. II. More deuteromycetes. Mycotaxon 60, 415-428.

Seifert K, Morgan-Jones G, Gams W, Kendrick B. 2011 – The genera of hyphomycetes. CBS Biodiversity Series no. 9: 1–997. CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Sydow H. 1927 – Fungi in itinere costaricense collecti. Annales Mycologici 25, 1–160.

 

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