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Dictyochaeta querna P.M. Kirk 1982

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Dictyochaeta querna P.M. Kirk, Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 78 58 (1982)
Dictyochaeta querna P.M. Kirk 1982

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Present
New Zealand
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Dictyochaeta querna is strikingly similar to D. fuegiana. Using multigene phylogenetic analysis of four loci, it was revealed that D. querna forms a monophyletic strongly supported clade separated from D. fuegiana and the morphologically similar D. stratosa. (Rebolva et al. 2021, no records from NZ)

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P.M. Kirk
P.M. Kirk
1982
58
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Dictyochaeta querna P.M. Kirk 1982
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Dictyochaeta querna

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Dictyochaeta querna P.M. Kirk 1982

AUCKLAND: Rangitoto Island, dead leaf of Quercus ilex, J. A. Cooper 8075, 17 Mar 2001, PDD 74115; Rangitoto Island, dead leaf of Quercus ilex, 17 Dec 2002, PDD 80636.
Colonies effuse, black, hairy. Setae 400 × 5–8 µm, dark brown. Conidiophores pale brown, 30–200 × 4–5 µm. Conidia hyaline, 15–20 × 1.5–2 µm.
New record from New Zealand. This species was originally described from Quercus robur but I have also found it in association with Quercus ilex at Westonbirt Arboretum in the UK (J. A. Cooper 4137, 24 Mar 1991).
Dictyochaeta simplex (S.Hughes & W.B.Kendr.) Hol.-Jech. is frequently recorded in association with Quercus ilex in the UK.
Kuthubutheen & Nawawi (1991) provided a comprehensive key to species of Dictyochaeta and Codinaea. A key to species described since 1991 was provided by Whitton et al. (2000).

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Dictyochaeta querna P.M. Kirk 1982
Dictyochaeta querna P.M. Kirk (1982)
Dictyochaeta querna P.M. Kirk 1982
Dictyochaeta querna P.M. Kirk (1982)
Dictyochaeta querna P.M. Kirk 1982
Dictyochaeta querna P.M. Kirk (1982)
Dictyochaeta querna P.M. Kirk 1982
Dictyochaeta querna P.M. Kirk
Dictyochaeta querna P.M. Kirk 1982

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Dictyochaeta querna P.M. Kirk 1982
New Zealand
Auckland

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e5f668d7-6957-11d5-bebb-00508bca8de8
scientific name
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25 June 2001
8 March 2021
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