BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Tapesia fusca (Pers.) Fuckel, 1870 (a discomycete)

Suggested Literature

Tapesia fusca may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
ASCOMYCOTA
(spore-shooters)
ASCOMYCETES
(spore shooters)
HELOTIALES
(an order of discomycetes and lichens)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Tapesia fusca is associated with:

apothecium Alnus - alders (Betulaceae) apothecium is saprobic on dead, fallen branch Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [on extensive brown hyphal subiculum]
apothecium Betula - birches (Betulaceae) apothecium is saprobic on dead, fallen branch Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
apothecium Corylus - hazels (Betulaceae) apothecium is saprobic on dead, fallen branch Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
apothecium Rhododendron - rhododendrons and azaleas (Ericaceae) apothecium is saprobic on dead, fallen branch Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
apothecium Ulex - gorses (Fabaceae) apothecium is saprobic on dead, fallen branch Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
apothecium Quercus - oaks (Fagaceae) apothecium is saprobic on dead, fallen branch Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
apothecium Crataegus - hawthorns (Rosaceae) apothecium is saprobic on dead, fallen branch Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
apothecium Salix - willows (Salicaceae) apothecium is saprobic on dead, fallen branch Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Associated with Tapesia fusca:

Tapesia fusca may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
ASCOMYCETES
(spore shooters)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook