Microlepicola J. Y. Zhang, Y. Z. Lu & K. D. Hyde, 2025

Zhang, Jing-Yi, Hyde, Kevin D., Yang, Ming-Fei, Sun, Ya-Ru, Xiao, Xing-Juan, Meng, Ze-Bin, Bao, Dan-Feng & Lu, Yong-Zhong, 2025, Discoveries of Dothideomycetes (Fungi) associated with pteridophytes in China, IMA Fungus 16, pp. e 167717-e 167717 : e167717-

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/imafungus.16.167717

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17967299

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/41BE7208-15F8-572D-B9C5-C9B26FC37E57

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scientific name

Microlepicola J. Y. Zhang, Y. Z. Lu & K. D. Hyde
status

gen. nov.

Microlepicola J. Y. Zhang, Y. Z. Lu & K. D. Hyde gen. nov.

Etymology.

The genus name refers to the fungal host “ Microlepia marginata ”.

Type species.

Microlepicola guizhouensis J. Y. Zhang, K. D. Hyde & Y. Z. Lu .

Description.

Sexual morph: Ascomata immersed, scattered, visible as dark spots that are slight raised. Ascomatal wall coriaceous, thin-walled, composed of brown cells of textura angularis to textura prismatica in surface view. Hamathecium filiform, pseudoparaphyses, hyaline. Asci 8 - spored, bitunicate, cylindric-clavate, straight or slightly curved, with a short pedicel, apically rounded, with an ocular chamber. Ascospores overlapping, 2–3 - seriate, fusiform, straight or slightly curved, 1 - septate, not constricted at the septum, guttulate, surrounded by a thin and inconspicuous mucilaginous sheath. Asexual morph: Undetermined.