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Melaspileella
Melaspileella is an ascomycete genus in the family Melaspileellaceae, placed in the order Asterinales (class Dothideomycetes). The family was established in 2018 to accommodate the single genus Melaspileella, which contains only M. proximella, a species originally described in 1861. Long misclassified as a lichen and moved through various genera, molecular studies confirmed it is actually a non-lichenised saprophyte living on tree bark. The fungus is characterised by minute black fruiting bodies and distinctive ascospores bearing slender appendages...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 464918.