Biology:Merismatium

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Merismatium
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Verrucariales
Genus: Merismatium
Zopf (1898)
Type species
Merismatium lopadii
(Anzi) Zopf (1898)
Species

M. coccotremicola
M. corae
M. deminutum
M. nigritellum
M. peregrinum
M. thamnoliicola

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

(As of October 2022), Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts six species of Merismatium.[3] Host information is from Diederich et al. (2018).[4]

References

  1. 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. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358798332. 
  2. Zopf, W. (1898). "Untersuchungen über die durch parasitische Pilze hervorgerufenen Krankheiten der Flechten". Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum 70 (4): 243–288. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12547798. 
  3. Source dataset. Species Fungorum Plus: Species Fungorum for CoL+. "Merismatium". Catalog of Life Version 2022-09-25. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/5PBB. 
  4. 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. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328374342. 
  5. Alstrup, V.; Hansen, E.S. (2001). "New lichens and lichenicolous fungi from Greenland". Graphis Scripta 12 (2): 41–50. 

Wikidata ☰ Q83634 entry