The Fungi Names Project will build on the existing Interactive Catalogue of Australian Fungi (ICAF) housed at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, to produce a list of all names applied to Australian fungi, arranged under the currently accepted name. For this project, 'fungi' includes both the true fungi and fungoid organisms in the Protista and Chromista. The fungi list will be the first compilation of the known fungi from Australia for more than 60 years, and is expected to include the names of around 8,000 accepted species of non-lichenised fungi.
Showing Darluca melaspora
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Type: "In culmis Sacchari officinarum (Australia)."
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Text: "Specimens of diseased sugar-cane were sent to Kew in 1878 from Porto Rico for investigation. These were submitted to the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, who gave the MS. name of Darluca melaspora to the fungus present on the canes. The fungus was afterwards very briefly described under Berkeley's name by Cooke in Nuovo Giornale Bot., vol. x., p. 26 (1878), who incorrectly gave the locality as Australia instead of Porto Rico. Saccardo has added to the confusion by changing the name to Coniothyrium melasporum, and in quoting Cooke's diagnosis incorrectly in Syll. Fung., vol. iii., No. 1799."