Skyttea cruciata

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Cordieritidaceae
Genus: Skyttea
Species: Skyttea cruciata

Name

Skyttea cruciata Sherwood, D.Hawksw. & Coppins, 1980

Lichenicolous fungus (parasite on living lichens)

Current name: Rhymbocarpus cruciatus (Sherwood, D.Hawksw. & Coppins) Etayo & Diederich, 1998   (Source: Index Fungorum)

Homotypic synonym: Rhymbocarpus cruciatus (Sherwood, D.Hawksw. & Coppins) Etayo & Diederich, 1998

References

• Sherwood, D. Hawksw. & Coppins, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. '75(3): 484 (1981) [1980]

• Sherwood, M.A., Hawksworth, D.L. and Coppins, B.J. (1980) Skyttea, a new genus of odontotremoid lichenicolous fungi. - Transactions of the British Mycological Society 75: 479–490.

• Diederich, P. and Etayo, J. (2000) A synopsis of the genera Skyttea, Llimoniella and Rhymbocarpus (lichenicolous Ascomycota, Leotiales). Lichenologist 32: 423–485. [1]

• Index Fungorum