Hypoxylon bellicolor Cedeno-Sanchez, L. Wendt & L. C. Mejia 2020
Year: 2024
Type: other
Abstract: Hypoxylon bellicolor Cedeño-Sanchez, L. Wendt & L. C. Mejía 2020 Mycosphere 11 (1): 1464 (2020). Fig. 4 Description. Stromata effused-pulvinate 20–90 mm long × 10–30 mm wide, Rust (39) (Fig. 4 a) pruinose surface with rust granules beneath the surface (Fig. 4 b), KOH-extractable pigments Luteous (12) (Fig. 4 c); perithecia ovoid, umbilicate ostioles (Fig. 4 d); asci 8 - spored cylindrical, the spore bearing part 40–80 µm long × 5–6 µm wide, stipes 30–35 µm long, with amyloid, discoid apical apparatus 2–3 µm high × 2 µm wide (Fig. 4 e); ascospores 10–12 µm long × 4–6 µm wide, with germ slit straight less than spore-length on the convex side, perispore dehiscent in 10 % KOH with coil-like ornamentation (Fig. 4 f). Specimens examined. Mexico • Campeche, Champotón-Campeche highway; 19 Jan 2018; P. Reyes leg.; UADY 145 • Quintana Roo, Centro de Conservación y Educación Ambiental, Cozumel; 20 Jan 2018; R. Valenzuela leg.; ENCB 17942 • Yucatán, east from the cemetery, comisaría Xmatkuil; 15 Oct 2021; P. Reyes leg.; UADY 7 • ibid.; P. Reyes leg.; UADY 9 • Southern Ecological Park, Mérida; 21 Sept 2022; P. Reyes leg.; UADY 45 • Ría Celestún Biosphere Reserve; 29 Oct 2022; P. Reyes leg.; UADY 55. Host. Growing on dead wood of Lysiloma latisiliquum (L.) Benth. (Fabaceae), Lonchocarpus sp. (Fabaceae) in deciduous forest; on dead wood of Conocarpus erectus L. (Combretaceae) in coastal dune vegetation. Known distribution. Panama (Cedeño-Sanchez et al. 2020). Notes. It shares a stromata color and yellow pigments with H. perforatum, however this one is characterized by having a white disc surrounding the ostioles; in addition it has a cosmopolitan distribution (Ju and Rogers 1996).
Authors: Reyes, Pamela E., Pinzón, Juan Pablo, Valenzuela, Ricardo, Raymundo, Tania, Tun-Garrido, Juan, García-Sandoval, Ricardo
Language: English
Subfield: Cell Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6930824251
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