Pyrenochaetopsis microspora

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Dothideomycetes
Subclassis: Pleosporomycetidae
Ordo: Pleosporales
Subordo: Pleosporineae
Familia: Pyrenochaetopsidaceae
Genus: Pyrenochaetopsis
Species: Pyrenochaetopsis microspora

Name

Pyrenochaetopsis microspora (Gruyter & Boerema) Gruyter, Aveskamp & Verkley, 2010

Anamorphic Ascomycota

Life habit: Lichenicolous fungus (parasite on living lichens)

Host: Facultative lichenicolous on Buellia spp.

Basionym

• Phoma leveillei var. microspora Gruyter & Boerema, 2002

References

• Gruyter, Aveskamp & Verkley, Mycologia 102 (5): 1077 (2010)

• de Gruyter, J.; Woudenberg, J.H.C.; Aveskamp, M.M.; Verkley, G.J.M.; Groenwald, J.Z; Crous, P.W. (2010) Systematic reappraisal of species in Phoma section Paraphoma, Pyrenochaeta and Pleurophoma. Mycologia, 102 (5); 1066-1081. (DOI: 10.3852/09-240)

• Lawrey, J.D. and Diederich, P. (2003) Lichenicolous fungi: interactions, evolution, and biodiversity. - The Bryologist 106 (1): 81–120. (Recent Literature on Lichens) (jstor) (PDF file)

• Lawrey, J.D. and Diederich, P. (2011) Lichenicolous fungi – worldwide checklist, including isolated cultures and sequences available. - http://www.lichenicolous.net (4/10/2011)

• Index Fungorum