Skyttea elachistophora

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Cordieritidaceae
Genus: Skyttea
Species: Skyttea elachistophora

Name

Skyttea elachistophora (Nyl.) Sherwood & D.Hawksw., 1980

Life habit: Lichenicolous fungus (parasite on living lichens)

Basionym

• Verrucaria elachistophora Nyl., 1878

Synonyms

• Rhymbocarpus elachistophorus (Nyl.) Triebel, 1989

• Skyttea tephromelarum Kalb & Hafellner, in Kalb, 1988
• Verrucaria elachistophora Nyl., 1878

References

• Sherwood, Hawksworth & 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.   **[RLL List # 109-96 / Rec.# 17213] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**

Links

• USDA Plants Database

• North American Lichen Checklist, Version (#14) 8 Oct 2008

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank