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Shivasia

Shivasia Vánky, M. Lutz & Piątek 2012, in Lutz et al., IMA fungus, 3, 143-154 (2012).

Etymology: This genus is named in the honour of Roger Graham Shivas, a multi-talented Australian mycologist, interested in plant parasitic microfungi, author of two books and over 130 scientific papers, in which over 160 new species and several new genera are described. Roger is a sharp- eyed, ardent collector who collected not only in Australia but also in Bolivia, Burma, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Diagnosis: Sori in the flowers of Schoenus (Cyperaceae) forming hard, globoid, black bodies composed of spore balls and spores on the surface of innermost floral organs developed in sporogenous hyphae within U-shaped pockets, at first covered by a fungal peridium. Spore balls few to many- spored, composed of spores only, enclosed by a subhyaline mucilaginous layer. Spores pigmented (brown). Sterile cells absent.

Index Fungorum Number: IF800821

Type Species: Shivasia solida  (Berk.) Vánky, M. Lutz & Piątek 2012, in Lutz et al., IMA fungus, 3, 143-154 (2012).

Species:

Shivasia solida (Berk.) Vánky, M. Lutz & Piątek 2012

Reference:

Lutz, M., Vánky, K., & Piątek, M. (2012). Shivasia gen. nov. for the Australasian smut Ustilago solida that historically shifted through five different genera. IMA fungus, 3, 143-154.

 

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