Chaenothecopsis sp.

McMullin, Richard Troy, Simon, Andrew D. F., Brodo, Irwin M., Wickham, Sara B., Bell-Doyon, Philip, Kuzmina, Maria & Starzomski, Brian M., 2024, DNA barcoding aids in generating a preliminary checklist of the lichens and allied fungi of Calvert Island, British Columbia: Results from the 2018 Hakai Terrestrial BioBlitz, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. 120292-120292 : 120292

Chaenothecopsis sp.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: R.T. McMullin; occurrenceID: D87A8245-022D-527B-A518-B5FEB959B689; Location: locationID: XVI; decimalLatitude: 51.66051; decimalLongitude: -128.14587; Event : habitat: Lichenicolous on Arthonia arthonioides on a snag; Record Level : institutionID: CANL; collectionID: McMullin 19559 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: R.T. McMullin; occurrenceID: 94F47B7D-8AE6-52DA-9E81-4BDBD26BE2EA; Location: locationID: XVI; decimalLatitude: 51.66051; decimalLongitude: -128.14587; Event : habitat: Lichenicolous on Arthonia arthonioides on Thuja plicata; Record Level : institutionID: CANL; collectionID: McMullin 19615 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: R.T. McMullin; occurrenceID: 90505922-4E29-5474-8E98-14D0D8673EEA; Location: locationID: XIX; decimalLatitude: 51.65065; decimalLongitude: -128.14241; Event : habitat: Lichenicolous on Arthonia arthonioides; Record Level: institutionID: CANL; collectionID: McMullin 19746

Parasite of

Arthonia arthonioides

Notes

Non-lichenised fungus. Apothecia black, epruinose, 0.4-0.9 mm tall, capitulum lenticular to subspherical, excipulum well developed, hypothecium brown. Asci 32.5-37.5 μm long (n = 10), ascospores uniseriate. Ascospores medium brown, 2-celled, 6.0-9.0 x 2.5-3 μm. Stalk and excipulum K- and not swelling in K. Appears to be a novel taxon.