BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Lophodermium pinastri (Schrad.) Chevall., 1826 (Pine Needle Split)
Suggested Literature
Identification Works
| Minter, D., 1990 (Colour photograph) | First Steps: Little Black Spots |
Lophodermium pinastri may also be covered by literature listed under:
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BIOTA (living things) |
Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) |
ASCOMYCOTA (spore-shooters) |
ASCOMYCETES (spore shooters) |
RHYTISMATACEAE (a family of ascomycetes) |
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Lophodermium pinastri is associated with:
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apothecium | Pinus - pines (Pinaceae) | apothecium is saprobic on fallen, dead, stromatic line striped needle | Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [with numerous, thin, black stromatic lines across needle] | |
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Leptostroma coelomycetous anamorph, conidioma | Pinus - pines (Pinaceae) | immersed conidioma of Leptostroma coelomycetous anamorph is saprobic on fallen, dead needle | Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 |
Associated with Lophodermium pinastri:
| apothecium (live) | live apothecium is parasitised by basidiocarp | Tremella translucens - a brain fungus (Tremellales: Tremellaceae) | Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 |
Lophodermium pinastri may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
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MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) |
ASCOMYCETES (spore shooters) |
References
| Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 | Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook |
| Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 | Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook |
