Fungi Fungi Name Index (FNI)

Showing Mycosphaerella medusae
Mycosphaerellaceae
Mycosphaerella medusae Carnegie & G.S.Pegg , legitimate, scientific
Carnegie, A.J., Pegg, G.S., White, D. & Burgess, T.I. (2011), Species within Mycosphaerellaceae and Teratosphaeriaceae from eucalypts in eastern Australia. Australasian Plant Pathology 40: 376, figs. 2f-h, 4a-c FungI [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Holotype here designated: in living leaves of Eucalyptus alba, Walkamin, Queensland, 11 Nov. 2008, A.J. Carnegie, M. Ramsden and G.S. Pegg, BRIP 52586. Living culture ex type available (BRIP 52586)"
  • Text: identifier: MB 519890
  • Text: DNA sequence: from culture ex-holotype: GenBank GQ890351 (ITS).
  • Etymology: "After Medusa, of Greek mythology, who had snakes in place of hair, in reference to the snake-like growth habit of germ tubes emanating from ascospores."
Crous, P.W., Wingfield, M.J., Cheewangkoon, R., Carnegie, A.J., Burgess, T.I., Summerell, B.A., Edwards, J., Taylor, P.W.K. & Groenewald, J.Z. (8 August 2019), Foliar pathogens of eucalypts. Studies in Mycology 94: 284 [basionym]
basionym of: Walkaminomyces medusae (Carnegie & G.S.Pegg) Crous & Carnegie legitimate