Minutoexcipula

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Minutoexcipula
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Microscopic view of the radially arranged conidia in a conidiophore from Minutoexcipula; the inset shows the fungus (visible as black spots) parasitizing its host, a crustose lichen in genus Pertusaria .
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Chaetothyriales
Genus: Minutoexcipula
V.Atienza & D.Hawksw. (1994)
Type species
Minutoexcipula tuckerae
V.Atienza & D.Hawksw. (1994)

Minutoexcipula is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) fungi of uncertain familial placement in the order Chaetothyriales. [1] It has eight species. The genus was circumscribed in 1994 by M. Violeta Atienza Tamarit and David Leslie Hawksworth, with Minutoexcipula tuckerae assigned as the type species. The genus is characterized both by its black convex sporodochia -like conidiomata , as well as the well-differentiated exciple on these structures. [2]

Species

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