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Dictyodesmium ulmicola

Dictyodesmium ulmicola (Ellis & Kellerm.) S. Hughes, Mycol. Pap. 36: 29 (1951).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 296621; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11255, Fig. 1

Description: see Videira et al. (2017).

Material considered: see Videira et al. (2017).

Fig. 1 Dictyodesmium ulmicola. a Leaf spot symptom on the host (re-drawn from Fig. 54a in Seifert et al. 2011). b Conidiophores and conidia (re-drawn from Fig. 285C in Seifert et al. 2011).

 

Importance and distribution

Dictyodesmium comprises four species viz. D. bambusicola known on old thatch of Bambusoideae in India, D. lignicola on rotten wood in China, D. prunorum on bark of Prunus in France and D. ulmicola on leaves of Ulmus in USA.

 

References

Seifert K, Morgan-Jones G, Gams W, Kendrick B. 2011 – The genera of hyphomycetes. CBS Biodiversity Series no. 9, 1–997. CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Videira SIR, Groenewald JZ, Nakashima C, Braun U et al. 2017 – Mycosphaerellaceae–Chaos or clarity? Studies in Mycology 87, 257–421.

 

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