Vandijckomycella Hern.-Restr., L. W. Hou, L. Cai & Crous, 2020

Hou, Lingwei, Hernandez-Restrepo, Margarita, Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias, Cai, Lei & Crous, Pedro W., 2020, Citizen science project reveals high diversity in Didymellaceae (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes), MycoKeys 65, pp. 49-99 : 49

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.65.47704

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Vandijckomycella Hern.-Restr., L. W. Hou, L. Cai & Crous
status

gen. nov.

Vandijckomycella Hern.-Restr., L. W. Hou, L. Cai & Crous View in CoL View at ENA gen. nov.

Etymology.

Named in honour of José F.T.M. van Dijck, who was elected as the first female President (2015-2018) of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Type species.

Vandijckomycella joseae Hern.-Restr., L.W. Hou, L. Cai & Crous.

Conidiomata pycnidial, superficial on the surface of the agar, solitary or confluent, globose to lageniform, covered by hyphal outgrowths, ostiolate, pycnidial wall pseudoparenchymatous, with 3-9 layers. Conidiogenous cells phialidic, hyaline, smooth, globose or ampulliform. Conidia hyaline, smooth- and thin-walled, aseptate, ovoid, oblong or ellipsoidal, with 2-4 polar guttules.