Biology:Meliola

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Short description: Genus of fungi

Meliola
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I. Meliola plebeja Speg.

II. Meliola longipoda Gaill. III. Meliola obducens Gaill. IV. Meliola laxa Gaill. V. Meliola parenchymatica Gaill.

Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Meliolales
Family: Meliolaceae
Genus: Meliola
Fr. (1825)
Type species
Meliola nidulans
(Schwein.) Cooke (1882)
Synonyms[1]
  • Arberia Nieuwl. (1916)
  • Asteridium (Sacc.) Speg. ex Sacc. (1891)
  • Asterina subgen. Asteridium Sacc. (1882)
  • Chaetomeliola (Cif.) Bat., H.Maia & M.L.Farr (1962)
  • Laeviomeliola Bat. (1960)
  • Meliola subgen. Chaetomeliola Cif. (1938)
  • Meliothecium Mussat (1901)
  • Myxothecium Kunze 1829

Meliola is a large genus of fungi in the family Meliolaceae. It was circumscribed by Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries in 1825.[1][2]

Species

(As of October 2022), Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 1701 species of Meliola,[3] Outline of Fungi notes 1700 species.[4] Species in the genus include:

See also List of Meliola species

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Meliola" (in English). http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/SynSpecies.asp?RecordID=3100. 
  2. Fries, E.M. (1825). "Sphaeriacei" (in la). Systema orbis vegetabilis (Lundae). 1. p. 111. https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/11732. 
  3. Source dataset. Species Fungorum Plus: Species Fungorum for CoL+. "Meliola". Catalog of Life Version 2022-09-25. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/5NR3. 
  4. Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. 

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