Echinodiscus lesdainii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Helotiales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Leotiomycetes Ordo: Helotiales

Genus: Echinodiscus
Species: Echinodiscus lesdainii

Name

Echinodiscus lesdainii (Vouaux) Etayo & Diederich, 2000

Life habit: Lichenicolous fungus (parasite of living lichens)

Host: On Lecania

Basionym

• Phacopsis lesdainii Vouaux [as 'lesdaini' ] 1914

Synonymy

• Phacopsis lesdainii Vouaux [as 'lesdaini' ], Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 30: 145 (1914)

References

• Etayo & Diederich, Bull. Soc. Nat. luxemb.: 64 (2000)

• Etayo, J. and Diederich, P. 2000: Echinodiscus lesdainii gen. et comb. nov., a new name for Phacopsis lesdainii Vouaux (lichenicolous Ascomycetes, Leotiales). - Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes Luxembourgeois 100: 63–66.   **[RLL List # 178 / Rec.# 5285] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (PDF file)

Links

• North American Lichen Checklist, Version (#16) 18 June 2010.

• Echinodiscus lesdainii in Index Fungorum.

• Echinodiscus lesdainii in MycoBank.