Ascobolus brantophilus

Ascobolus brantophilus is a species of coprophilous fungus in the family Ascobolaceae.[1] It grows on goose droppings.[2]

Ascobolus brantophilus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Pezizomycetes
Order: Pezizales
Family: Ascobolaceae
Genus: Ascobolus
Species:
A. brantophilus
Binomial name
Ascobolus brantophilus
Dissing, 1989

Ascobolus brantophilus mainly has an Arctic and Subarctic distribution. It described in 1989 from Greenland, Ellesmere Island and Svalbard[3] and has since then been reported from Iceland,[4][2] the Shetland Islands[5] and the Falkland Islands[6]

References
  1. "Ascobolus brantophilus Dissing". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  2. Richardson, Michael J. (2011). "Additions to the Coprophilous Mycota of Iceland" (PDF). Acta Botanica Islandica. 15: 23–49.
  3. Dissing, Henry (1989). "Four new coprophilous species of Ascobolus and Saccobolus from Greenland (Pezizales)". Opera Botanica. 100: 43–50.
  4. Richardson, Michael J. (2004). "Coprophilous fungi from Iceland" (PDF). Acta Botanica Islandica. 14: 77–102.
  5. Richardson, Michael J. (2006). "New Records of Fungi from Orkney and Shetland". Botanical Journal of Scotland. 58 (1): 93–104.
  6. Watling, R.; Richardson, M. J. (2010). "Coprophilous fungi of the Falkland Islands". Edinburgh Journal of Botany. 67 (3): 399–423. doi:10.1017/S0960428610000156.
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