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Prillieuxina winteriana

Prillieuxina winteriana (Pazschke) G. Arnaud, Annals d'École National d'Agric. de Montpellier, Série 2 16(1-4): 162 (1918) [1917].

≡ Asterina winteriana Pazschke, Hedwigia 31(3): 104 (1892).

Index Fungorum number: IF 160955; Facesoffungi number: FoF 03696, Fig. 1

Description: see Hongsanan et al. (2014).

Material considered: see Hongsanan et al. (2014).

Fig. 1 Prillieuxina winteriana (S-F12335, syntype). a Details of herbarium material. b Thyriothecia on host surface. c Squash mount of thyriothecium showing peridial wall. d Superficial hyphae. e Peridial wall f–j Asci. k, l Ascospores. m–o Mature conidia. Scale bars: b = 300 μm, c, e = 40 μm, d, f–j = 20 μm, k–o = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

There are 78 Prillieuxina epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), several species have been transferred to Asterina, Asterinella, Asterolibertia, Dothidasteromella, Lembosia, Lembosina and Trichasterina. Species of Prillieuxina are mainly distributed in Acoraceae, Aquifoliaceae, Asparagaceae, Asteraceae, Convolvulaceae, Ebenaceae, Lamiaceae, Menispermaceae, Moraceae, Myrtaceae, Primulaceae, Rubiaceae, Rutaceae, Solanaceae, and Urticaceae. Prillieuxina is reported from Asia (India (Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu), Java, Maluku Islands and Philippines), Central America (Costa Rica) and South America (Brazil (Amazonas, São Paulo).

 

References

Hongsanan S, Li YM, Liu JK, Hofmann T et al. 2014 – Revision of genera in Asterinales. Fungal Diversity 68, 1–68. Doi 10.1007/s13225-014-0307-4

Guatimosim E, Firmino AL, Bezerra JL, Pereira OL, Barreto RW, Crous PW. 2015 – Towards a phylogenetic reappraisal of Parmulariaceae and Asterinaceae (Dothideomycetes). Persoonia 35, 230–241.

 

 

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