Diaphanopellis is a genus of rust fungi in the family Coleosporiaceae. Reported as new to science in 2005, the genus is monotypic, containing the single species Diaphanopellis forrestii, found growing on Rhododendron selense subsp. selense, in the Himalayas.[2]
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| Genus: | Diaphanopellis P.E.Crane (2005)
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| Diaphanopellis forrestii P.E.Crane (2005)[1]
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Another species Diaphanopellis purpurea C.J. You & J. Cao (2017) was re-named as Chrysomyxa purpure in 2021.[3]
References
edit- ^ P.E. Crane, Mycologia 97 (2): 539 (2005)
- ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
- ^ "Species Fungorum - GSD Species". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
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