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Sarea

Sarea is a genus of small, non-lichenized, inoperculate, discomycete fungi in the family Zythiaceae. Sarea species are found growing on the resin of conifers in the Cupressaceae and Pinaceae in the Northern Hemisphere. Two species in the genus are readily distinguishable from each other: apothecia of Sarea difformis are black, while those of Sarea resinae are orange in color.

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Sarea
Sarea resinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Ascomycota
Class:
Sareomycetes
Order:
Sareales
Family:
Sareaceae
Genus:
Sarea

Fr. (1825)
Type species
Sarea difformis
(Fr.) Fr. (1828)

Sarea is a genus of small, non-lichenized, inoperculate,1 discomycete fungi in the family Zythiaceae.23 Sarea species are found growing on the resin of conifers in the Cupressaceae and Pinaceae in the Northern Hemisphere.1 Two species in the genus are readily distinguishable from each other: apothecia of Sarea difformis are black, while those of Sarea resinae are orange in color.1

Species

  • Sarea coeloplata (Norman) J.K.Mitch., Garrido-Ben. & Quijada (2021)4
  • Sarea difformis (Fr.) Fr. (1828)
  • Sarea resinae (Fr.) Kuntze (1898)
References

References

  1. Hawksworth, D.L.; Sherwood, M.A. (1981). "A reassessment of three widespread resinicolous discomycetes". Canadian Journal of Botany. 59 (3): 357–372. doi:10.1139/b81-049.
  2. Beimforde, C.; Schmidt, A.R.; Rikkinen, J.; Mitchell, J.K. (2020). "Sareomycetes cl. nov.: A new proposal for placement of the resinicolous genus Sarea (Ascomycota, Pezizomycotina)". Fungal Systematics and Evolution. 6: 25–37. doi:10.3114/fuse.2020.06.02. hdl:10138/317218. PMC 7451776. PMID 32904095.
  3. Mitchell, J.K.; Quijada, L. (2020). "(2762) Proposal to conserve the name Cytospora resinae (Zythia resinae) with a conserved type (Ascomycota)". Taxon. 69 (5): 1102–1103. doi:10.3158/1557.1. S2CID 86529508.
  4. Mitchell, James K.; Garrido-Benavent, Isaac; Quijada, Luis; Pfister, Donald H. (2021). "Sareomycetes: more diverse than meets the eye". IMA Fungus. 12 (1): e6. doi:10.1186/s43008-021-00056-0. PMC 7961326. PMID 33726866.