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Oblongocollomyces variabilis

Oblongocollomyces variabilis (F.J.J. Van der Walt, Slippers & G.J. Marais) Tao Yang & Crous, in Yang et al., Fungal Biology 121: 339 (2016).

≡ Sphaeropsis variabilis F.J.J. Van der Walt, Slippers & G.J. Marais, in Slippers et al., Persoonia 33: 164 (2014).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 817640; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11893, Fig. 1

Description: see Yang et al. (2016).

Material considered: see Yang et al. (2016).

Fig. 1 Oblongocollomyces variabilis (CBS 121774, holotype, re-drawn from Fig. 16 in Yang et al. 2016). a Colony sporulating on PNA with long pycnidial neck. b, c Conidiogenous cells. d Paraphyses. e Conidia. Scale bars: a = 500 μm, b–e = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Oblongocollomyces comprises only one species isolated from Acacia karroo and needles of Pinus (Pinaceae) in Africa (Namibia), Senegalia mellifera (Fabaceae) in South Africa (Northern Cape) and Vachellia karroo (Fabaceae) in South Africa (Gauteng).

 

References

Slippers B, Roux J, Wingfield MJ, Van der Walt FJJ, Jami F, Mehl JWM, Marais GJ. 2014 –Confronting the constraints of morphological taxonomy in the Botryosphaeriales. Persoonia-Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi 33, 155–168.

Yang T, Groenewald JZ, Cheewangkoon R, Jami F, Abdollahzadeh J, Lombard L, Crous PW. 2017 – Families, genera, and species of Botryosphaeriales. Fungal Biology 121, 322–346. 

 

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