Dryadicolous microfungi from Greenland.I. List of species

Andrzej Chlebicki, Henning Knudsen

Abstract


Seventeen taxa of microfungi growing on Dryas are recorded from Greenland based on 147 collections. Five of them are new to the archipelago, Lophium igoschinae Chlebicki sp. nov, is described as a new species, the other four being: Crocicreas variabile, Gnomonia dryadis, Naemacyclus lambertii var. diyadis, Pseudomassaria islandica and Stomiopeltis diyadis. Short descriptions and drawings of diagnostic microscopic features are presented. Lophiostoma macrostomum, Phueosphaeria vagans, Pleospora pentumera and Scleropleella hyperborea were not previously reported on Dryas from Greenland. Specimens of Stictis mollis reported by Rostrup (1891) in fact belongs to Naemacyclus lambertii var. diyadis.

Keywords


Arctic; Greenland; microfungi; Dryas octopetala; Dryas integrifolia; distribution

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5586/asbp.2001.037

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