Arrasia rostrata (Basidiomycota), a new corticioid genus and species from Italy

Annarosa Bernicchia; Sergio P. Gorjón; Karen K. Nakasone

doi:10.5248/118.257

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Arrasia rostrata (Basidiomycota), a new corticioid genus and species from Italy

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Authors:

Annarosa Bernicchia, Sergio P. Gorjón, Karen K. Nakasone

Year:

2011

Type:

Scientific Journal

Station:

Northern Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5248/118.257

Source:

Mycotaxon. 118: 257-264.

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Abstract

An unusual corticioid species with distinctive large basidiospores that develop a distal refractive rostrum when fully mature is described as new. It grows on living bark of Juniperus phoenicea on the Italian island of Sardinia. Because it is morphologically distinct from any known genus of corticioid fungi, the new genus Arrasia is proposed to accommodate it.

Keywords

dendrotheloid fungi, Italy

Citation

Bernicchia, Annarosa; Gorjon, Sergio P.; Nakasone, Karen K. 2011. Arrasia rostrata (Basidiomycota), a new corticioid genus and species from Italy. Mycotaxon. 118: 257-264.