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Triblidium octosporum D. Hawksw. & Coppins

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Scientific name
Triblidium octosporum
Author
D. Hawksw. & Coppins
Common names
 
IUCN Specialist Group
Cup-fungi, Truffles and Allies
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Incertae sedis
Order
Triblidiales
Family
Triblidiaceae
Assessment status
Under Assessment
Proposed by
David Minter
Assessors
David Minter
Comments etc.
Anders Dahlberg

Assessment Notes

Taxonomic notes


Why suggested for a Global Red List Assessment?

This fungus is known only from a single collection where it was growing, perhaps as a parasite, on a lichen on Fraxinus excelsior. Ash dieback caused by Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus Queloz, Grünig, Berndt, T. Kowalski, T.N. Sieber & Holdenr. (better known by the synonym Chalara fraxinea T. Kowalski) is likely to result in significant loss of habitat as it spreads across Europe. Using IUCN categories and criteria, Cannon & Minter (2013) evaluated this species globally as Critically Endangered.


Geographic range


Population and Trends

Ash dieback caused by Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus Queloz, Grünig, Berndt, T. Kowalski, T.N. Sieber & Holdenr. (better known by the synonym Chalara fraxinea T. Kowalski) is likely to result in significant loss of habitat as it spreads across Europe.

Population Trend: Decreasing


Habitat and Ecology

This fungus grows, perhaps as a parasite, on thalli of the lichen Ochrolechia yasudae Vain., which itself grows in Fraxinus excelsior L. Nothing is known about interactions between this fungus and animals, or other fungi or plants.


Threats

Ash dieback caused by Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus Queloz, Grünig, Berndt, T. Kowalski, T.N. Sieber & Holdenr. (better known by the synonym Chalara fraxinea T. Kowalski) is likely to result in significant loss of habitat as it spreads across Europe.


Conservation Actions

In situ: none known. Ex situ: none known.  No sequences were found in a search of the NCBI, GenBank database [www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]. No living strains of this species were found in a search of the Culture Collection Information Worldwide on-line catalogue [www.wfcc.info/ccinfo/home].


Research needed


Use and Trade


Bibliography

CANNON, P.F. & MINTER, D.W. Tryblidium octosporum. IMI Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria No. 1947 (2013). HAWKSWORTH, D.L. & COPPINS, B.J. A new species of Tryblidium from Fraxinus in Britain. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 61 (3): 597-599 (1973).


Country occurrence

Regional Population and Trends

Country Trend Redlisted