Ovicuculispora parmeliae

Ovicuculispora parmeliae is a widely distributed species of lichenicolous fungus in the family Bionectriaceae. It is parasitic on many foliose lichen species, particularly those in the family Parmeliaceae.

Ovicuculispora parmeliae
Ovicuculispora parmeliae (pinkish-orange colour) parasitising a species of Physcia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Hypocreales
Family: Bionectriaceae
Genus: Ovicuculispora
Species:
O. parmeliae
Binomial name
Ovicuculispora parmeliae
(Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Etayo (2010)
Synonyms[1]
  • Diplodia parmeliae Berk. & M.A.Curtis (1874)
  • Diplodina parmeliae (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Sacc. (1884)
  • Nectria parmeliae (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) D.Hawksw. (1981)
  • Nectriopsis parmeliae (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) M.S.Cole & D.Hawksw. (2001)

Taxonomy

The fungus was first formally described as a new species by mycologists Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis in 1874 as Diplodia parmeliae.[2] It was later placed in the genera Nectria by David L. Hawksworth in 1981,[3] and then Nectriopsis by Mariette Cole and Hawksworth in 2001.[4] In 2010, Javier Etayo circumscribed the new genus Ovicuculispora, and assigned O. parmeliae as the type species.[5]

References
  1. "GSD Species Synonymy: Ovicuculispora parmeliae (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Etayo". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  2. Berkeley, M.J. (1875). "Notices of North American fungi". Grevillea. 3 (25): 1–17.
  3. Hawksworth, D.L. (1981). "The lichenicolous Coelomycetes". Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History. 9 (1): 1–98 (see p. 76).
  4. Cole, Mariette S.; Hawksworth, David L. (2001). "Lichenicolous fungi, mainly from the USA, including Patriciomyces gen. nov". Mycotaxon. 77: 305–338.
  5. Etayo, J. (2010). "Hongos liquenícolas de Perú Homenaje a Rolf Santesson". Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Provence (in Spanish). 61: 2–46.


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