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Meliolinites pliocenicus
Meliolinites pliocenicus M. Bera, M.A. Khan, S. Bera Mycol. Res., 18(7): 923. 25 Jun 2019
- Name
- Meliolinites pliocenicus
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Meliolinites
- Authors (Pub.)
- Bera M.
Khan M. A.
Bera S.
- Publication
- A new foliicolous melioloid fungus from the Pliocene of eastern
Himalaya [2019/6]
- Journal
- Mycological Research
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 7
- Page number
- 923
- Year
- 2019
- Stratigraphy
- Pliocene
- Strat. comment
- Subansiri Formation
- Location
- On: Shorea siwalika (Antal & Awasthi) Khan & al.; Road cuttings near Itanagar in the Papum Pare district, Arunachal Pradesh, India (between 26.46444° N and 29.498333° N and 91.497222° E and 97.415556° E)
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Indostan)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Botany Department, University of Kolkata, Kolkata, India
- Repository Number
- CUH/PPL/JU/2/M1
- Diagnosis
- Mycelial colony foliicolous, dark brown; hyphae hyphopodiate, septate, thick-walled, straight to slightly sinuous, frequently with opposite branching at
acute angle, bearing both appressoria and phialides; appressoria 2-celled, mostly alternate or sometimes opposite; stalk cells cylindrical to cuneate; head cells capitate, thick-walled, long, globose-elliptical or irregularly rounded, entire; phialides bottle-shaped with pointed and tapering apex, alternate, rarely mixed with appressoria; ascospore 4-celled, 3-septate; mycelial and perithecial setae absent.
