| Merismatium | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Eurotiomycetes |
| Order: | Verrucariales |
| Genus: | Merismatium Zopf (1898) |
| Type species | |
| Merismatium lopadii (Anzi) Zopf (1898) | |
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M. coccotremicola | |
Merismatium is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) fungi of uncertain familial placement in the order Verrucariales. The genus was circumscribed in 1898 by Friedrich Wilhelm Zopf.
Species
As of October 2022, Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts six species of Merismatium. Host information is from Diederich et al. (2018).
- Merismatium coccotremicola Etayo (2008) – host: Coccotrema
- Merismatium corae (Pat.) Etayo & R.Sant. (2010) – host: Cora
- Merismatium deminutum (Arnold) Cl.Roux & Nav.-Ros. (2002) – hosts: Polyblastia, Staurothele, Thelidium, Verrucaria
- Merismatium nigritellum (Nyl.) Vouaux (1913) – hosts: Catapyrenium, Leptogium, Lichenomphalia, Lopadium, Micarea, Mycobilimbia, Ochrolechia, Protoblastenia
- Merismatium peregrinum (Flot.) Triebel (1990) – host: Rimularia
- Merismatium thamnoliicola Alstrup & E.S.Hansen (2001) – host: Thamnolia
References
- Wijayawardene, N.N.; Hyde, K.D.; Dai, D.Q.; Sánchez-García, M.; Goto, B.T.; Saxena, R.K.; et al. (2022). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa – 2021". Mycosphere. 13 (1): 53–453. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2. hdl:10481/76378. S2CID 249054641.
- Zopf, W. (1898). "Untersuchungen über die durch parasitische Pilze hervorgerufenen Krankheiten der Flechten" [Studies on lichen diseases caused by parasitic fungi]. Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum. 70 (4): 243–288.
- Source dataset. Species Fungorum Plus: Species Fungorum for CoL+. "Merismatium". Catalog of Life Version 2022-09-25. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
- Diederich, Paul; Lawrey, James D.; Ertz, Damien (2018). "The 2018 classification and checklist of lichenicolous fungi, with 2000 non-lichenized, obligately lichenicolous taxa". The Bryologist. 121 (3): 340–425. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-121.3.340. S2CID 92396850.
- Alstrup, V.; Hansen, E.S. (2001). "New lichens and lichenicolous fungi from Greenland". Graphis Scripta. 12 (2): 41–50.
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