Merismatium
| Merismatium | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Eurotiomycetes |
| Order: | Verrucariales |
| Genus: | Merismatium Zopf (1898) |
| Type species | |
| Merismatium lopadii (Anzi) Zopf (1898) | |
| Species | |
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M. coccotremicola | |
Merismatium is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) fungi of uncertain familial placement in the order Verrucariales.[1] The genus was circumscribed in 1898 by Friedrich Wilhelm Zopf.[2]
Species
[edit]As of October 2022[update], Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts six species of Merismatium.[3] Host information is from Diederich et al. (2018).[4]
- Merismatium coccotremicola Etayo (2008) – host: Coccotrema
- Merismatium corae (Pat.) Etayo & R.Sant. (2010) – host: Cora
- Merismatium deminutum (Arnold) Cl.Roux & Nav.-Ros. (2002) – hosts: Polyblastia, Staurothele, Thelidium, Verrucaria
- Merismatium nigritellum (Nyl.) Vouaux (1913) – hosts: Catapyrenium, Leptogium, Lichenomphalia, Lopadium, Micarea, Mycobilimbia, Ochrolechia, Protoblastenia
- Merismatium peregrinum (Flot.) Triebel (1990) – host: Rimularia
- Merismatium thamnoliicola Alstrup & E.S.Hansen (2001)[5] – host: Thamnolia
References
[edit]- ↑ Wijayawardene, N.N.; Hyde, K.D.; Dai, D.Q.; Sánchez-García, M.; Goto, B.T.; Saxena, R.K.; et al. (2022). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa – 2021". Mycosphere. 13 (1): 53–453. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2. hdl:10481/76378. S2CID 249054641.
- ↑ Zopf, W. (1898). "Untersuchungen über die durch parasitische Pilze hervorgerufenen Krankheiten der Flechten" [Studies on lichen diseases caused by parasitic fungi]. Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum. 70 (4): 243–288.
- ↑ Source dataset. Species Fungorum Plus: Species Fungorum for CoL+. "Merismatium". Catalog of Life Version 2022-09-25. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
- ↑ Diederich, Paul; Lawrey, James D.; Ertz, Damien (2018). "The 2018 classification and checklist of lichenicolous fungi, with 2000 non-lichenized, obligately lichenicolous taxa". The Bryologist. 121 (3): 340–425. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-121.3.340. S2CID 92396850.
- ↑ Alstrup, V.; Hansen, E.S. (2001). "New lichens and lichenicolous fungi from Greenland". Graphis Scripta. 12 (2): 41–50.
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