''Zoggium'' is a fungal
genus
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in the family
Mytilinidiaceae
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. A
monotypic
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genus, it contains the single species ''Zoggium mayorii'', named after mycologist Hans Zogg.
The species was originally described in 1952 as a species of ''
Lophium'' by Zogg, who noted that it differed from other ''Lophium'' species in that its
peridia were less fragile because of a rigid
ascomata
An ascocarp, or ascoma (: ascomata), is the fruiting body (sporocarp (fungi), sporocarp) of an ascomycete phylum fungus. It consists of very tightly interwoven hyphae and millions of embedded ascus, asci, each of which typically contains four to ...
.
In 2001, Vasilyeva considered the
morphological differences sufficient to erect a new genus to contain the species. ''Z. mayorii'' is found in the
Russian Far East
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and the
Swiss
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and
French Alps
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.
References
Fungi of Europe
Mytilinidiales
Monotypic Dothideomycetes genera
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