Lizonia fragilis (Berk.) Sacc. 1882

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Name scientific

Lizonia fragilis (Berk.) Sacc. 1882

Preferred name

Lizonia fragilis (Berk.) Sacc. 1882

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

(Berk.) Sacc.

Original authors

Berk.

Combination authors

Sacc.

Publication place

Saccardo, P.A. 1882: Sylloge Pyrenomycetum, Vol. I. Saccardo, P.A. Sylloge Fungorum. 1.

Year published

1882

Publication page

575

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Sphaeria fragilis Berk. 1855

Type locality

NZ holotype

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Lizonia fragilis

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Dothideomycetes

Family

Pseudoperisporiaceae

Genus

Lizonia

Species

fragilis

Synonyms

Sphaeria fragilis Berk. 1855

Descriptions

Berkeley, M.J. Fungi. In: Hooker, J.D. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part II. Flowerless Plants. Lovell Reeve. 172-210, 338.

Sphaeria fragilis Berk. 1855

Description

Forming little scattered clusters of brownish, opaque, obtuse, extremely brittle perithecia, insomuch that they break off while still filled with the white mass of fructification. Ostiolum obsolete. Sporidia varying from 1/1000 to 1/1660 of an inch in length, shortly fusiform, often broader at one end, uniseptate, hyaline.

Latin

peritheciis congestis fragilissimis nigro-fuscis obtusis opacis minimis, sporidiis hyalinis breviter subfusiformibus uniseptatis.

Notes

This species has the habit of S. pulicaris, but is totally different. There is not the slightest tinge of blue, as in that species.

Typification

On the under side of the leaves of Eurybia furfuracea, Colenso.

Johnston, P.R. 2010: Kew Type Specimens - images and notes from P.R. Johnston, 2010.

Sphaeria fragilis Berk. 1855

Notes

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Berkeley reports on Eurybia furfuracea; this is now Olearia. Macroscopically looks just like Rosescheldiella, and the drawing of the spores on the packet look typical. There has been a Pseudocercospora described recently from this host, but it has dark lesion on upper surface of leaf as well as fruiting body partly hidden amongst leaf hairs on lower surface. The Lizonia specimen has no lesion on the upper surface, and there is no sign of a Pseudocercospora state.