''Capronia harrisiana'' is a
lichenicolous fungus
A lichenicolous fungus is a parasitic fungus that only lives on lichen as the host. A lichenicolous fungus is not the same as the fungus that is the component of the lichen, which is known as a lichenized fungus. They are most commonly specific t ...
on the tripartite foliose lichen ''
Crocodia aurata
''Crocodia'' is a genus of foliose lichens in the family Peltigeraceae. It has eight species. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, although most species occur in temperate and tropical regions of the Southern Hemisphere. The main character ...
''.
Although the
host
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species is widespread in many areas of the world, no species of ''
Capronia
''Capronia'' is a genus of fungi in the family Herpotrichiellaceae. It has about 80 species.
Species
*''Capronia acutiseta''
*''Capronia albimontana''
*''Capronia amylacea''
*''Capronia andina''
*''Capronia apiculata''
*''Capronia arctica'' ...
'' has previously been reported from ''Crocodia aurata'', and ''Capronia harrisiana'' appears to be
endemic
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to the southern
Appalachian Mountains
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in southeastern North America. The new species is characterized by 50–120
μm
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wide
ascomata
An ascocarp, or ascoma (), is the fruiting body ( sporocarp) of an ascomycete phylum fungus. It consists of very tightly interwoven hyphae and millions of embedded asci, each of which typically contains four to eight ascospores. Ascocarps are mo ...
, 40–95 μm long
seta
In biology, setae (singular seta ; from the Latin word for "bristle") are any of a number of different bristle- or hair-like structures on living organisms.
Animal setae
Protostomes
Annelid setae are stiff bristles present on the body. T ...
e, (1–)3-
septate
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Examples
Human anatomy
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, pale brown, 11.9–15.7 × 4.4–5.8 μm ascospores, and an I+ red
hymenium
The hymenium is the tissue layer on the hymenophore of a fungal fruiting body where the cells develop into basidia or asci, which produce spores. In some species all of the cells of the hymenium develop into basidia or asci, while in others som ...
.
[Jason P. Hollinger and James C. Lendemer "''Capronia harrisiana'' (Ascomycota, Chaetothyriales), a new lichenicolous species on Crocodia aurata from the southern Appalachian Mountains of southeastern North America," The Bryologist 124(4), 522–532, (3 November 2021). https://doi.org/10.1639/0007-2745-124.4.522]
References
Eurotiomycetes
Fungi described in 2021
Fungi of North America
Taxa named by James Lendemer
Fungus species
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