Published October 1, 2012 | Version v1
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Vararia sphaericospora Gilb.

  • 1. C / Castaños 16, 37184, Villares de la Reina, Salamanca, Spain. E-mail: spgorjon @ gmail. com
  • 2. Laboratório de Patologia da Madeira. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA). Av. André Araújo, 2936, Aleixo, CEP 69060 - 001, Manaus, Brazil. E-mail: ranna @ inpa. gov. br

Description

Vararia sphaericospora Gilb.

An easily distinguishable species by the hyphae with clamp-connections and inamyloid, globose basidiospores about 6–9 µm in diam. It is reported from northern Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia (Hjortstam & Ryvarden 2007a).

Specimens examined: — BRAZIL, Amazonas, Manaus, INPA Campus, Bosque da Ciência, 2 Apr 2012, on bark of living palm, leg. S.P. Gorjón, SPG 3464. Roraima, Alto Alegre - Amajari, Maracá Ecological Station, 29 Sep 2008, on dead trunks, leg. M.A. Jesus, LPM 4511.

Notes

Published as part of Gorjón, Sergio P. & Jesus, Maria Aparecida De, 2012, Some new species and new records of corticioid fungi (Basidiomycota) from the Brazilian Amazon, pp. 38-54 in Phytotaxa 67 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.67.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5065956

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
INPA
Event date
2008-09-29
Verbatim event date
2008-09-29/2012-04-02
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Order
Russulales
Family
Lachnocladiaceae
Genus
Vararia
Species
sphaericospora
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Hjortstam, K. & Ryvarden, L. (2007 a) Checklist of corticioid fungi (Basidiomycotina) from the tropics, subtropics, and the southern hemisphere. Synopsis Fungorum 22: 27 - 146.