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Smeringomyces trinitatis Thaxt. 1931

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Smeringomyces trinitatis Thaxt., Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts 16 272 (1931)
Smeringomyces trinitatis Thaxt. 1931

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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Thaxt.
Thaxt.
Thaxter, R. 1931: Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 16
1931
272
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Smeringomyces trinitatis Thaxt. 1931
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Smeringomyces trinitatis

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Fungi
Ascomycota
Laboulbeniomycetes
Laboulbeniales
Laboulbeniaceae
Smeringomyces
trinitatis

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Weir, A.; Rossi, W. 1997: New and interesting Laboulbeniales (Ascomycetes) from New Zealand. Canadian Journal of Botany 75(5): 791-798.

Smeringomyces trinitatis Thaxt. 1931

SPECIMENS EXAMINED: NEW ZEALAND, North Island, Rotorua, Lake Rotoiti, 600-700 m, on the abdominal bristles of Sepedophilus niticollis Broun (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), 23-27 December 1983, leg. P.M. Hammond (AW-87).
Thallus pale yellow to brown. Total length from foot to tip of perithecium 220-260 µm. Receptacle consisting of a short series of more or less opaque, superposed, flattened cells the upper of which subtends the appendages, which are also infuscated with brown. Perithecium 150-195 x 25-35 µm, divergent from the main axis of the thallus, basally suffused with light brown becoming paler distally, with a long, straight perithecial outgrowth extending beyond the rather undistinguished tip. Ascospores not observed.
KNOWN DISTRIBUTION AND HOSTS: Described originally from Trinidad on "Conosoma trinadadense Bernhauer" (Thaxter 1931), this host name is apparently not valid (Frank 1982) but is probably referrable to Sepedophilus. More recently the parasite has been reported from Japan on Sepedophilus tibialis Sharp (Terada 1977).
The New Zealand material corresponds to the description and illustration of one form of this species, that producing a long, straight perithecial outgrowth (Thaxter 1931, Plate XLVI, Fig. 10), and no specimens of the other form with a more truncate perithecial outgrowth have been observed. The genus Smeringomyces is poorly understood at present and in need of detailed study.

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Smeringomyces trinitatis Thaxt. 1931
Smeringomyces trinitatis Thaxt. (1931)
Pennycook, S.R.; Galloway, D.J. (2004)
Smeringomyces trinitatis Thaxt. 1931
Smeringomyces trinitatis Thaxt. (1931)
Thaxter, R. (1931)
Smeringomyces trinitatis Thaxt. 1931
Smeringomyces trinitatis Thaxt. (1931)
Weir, A.; Rossi, W. (1997)

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24 August 2000
24 August 2000
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