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Colpoma quercinum (Pers.) Wallr., 1823 (a discomycete)

Suggested Literature

Colpoma quercinum may be covered by literature listed under:

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

Colpoma quercinum is associated with:

Photos apothecium Quercus (native spp) - Native Oaks (Fagaceae) subcortical, splitting bark transversely or obliquely apothecium is saprobic on dead, attached or fallen twig Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos Conostroma coelomycetous anamorph Quercus (native spp) - Native Oaks (Fagaceae) Conostroma coelomycetous anamorph is saprobic on dead, attached or fallen twig Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Associated with Colpoma quercinum:

apothecium apothecium is associate of erumpent, sessile or short-stalked apothecium Niptera exsiliens - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
ascocarp ascocarp is associate of fruitbody Corticium quercicola - a resupinate fungus (Polyporales: Corticiaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Colpoma quercinum may be associated with more 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
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota

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