Polycoccum laursenii

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Polycoccum laursenii
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Trypetheliales
Family: Polycoccaceae
Genus: Polycoccum
Species:
P. laursenii
Binomial name
Polycoccum laursenii
Zhurb. (2004) [1]

Polycoccum laursenii is a species of lichenicolous fungus in the family Polycoccaceae. It was first described as a new species in 2004 by Russian mycologist Mikhail Petrovich Zhurbenko. It is found in Alaska [1] and in Russia. [2]

It is similar to Polycoccum cladoniae but differs from it in having smaller spores. [1]

Ecology

Polycoccum laursenii is a lichenicolous fungus, meaning that it infects lichens. Its only documented host species is Cladonia pocillum . [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Zhurbenko, Mikhail P.; Alstrup, Vagn (2004). "Lichenicolous fungi on Cladonia mainly from the Arctic". Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses. 34 (1): 477–499.
  2. 1 2 Zhurbenko, M. P.; Pino-Bodas, R. (2017). "A revision of lichenicolous fungi growing on Cladonia, mainly from the Northern Hemisphere, with a worldwide key to the known species". Opuscula Philolichenum. 16: 188–266.