Nais (fungus)

Nais
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Ascomycota
Class:
Sordariomycetes
Order:
Microascales
Family:
Halosphaeriaceae
Genus:
Nais

Kohlm. (1962)
Type species
Naïs inornata
Kohlm. (1962)
Species

N. aquatica
N. inornata

Naïs is a genus of fungi in the family Halosphaeriaceae. The genus, which contains two species,[1] was circumscribed by mycologist Jan Kohlmeyer in 1962 to contain Naïs inornata.[2] N. aquatica was described from submerged wood collected in north Queensland, Australia in 1992.[3]

References

  1. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 459. ISBN 0-85199-826-7.
  2. ^ Kohlmeyer J. (1962). "Halophile Pilze von den Ufern Frankreichs". Nova Hedwigia (in German). 4: 389–420.
  3. ^ Hyde KD. (1992). "Tropical Australian freshwater fungi 2. Annulatascus velatispora gen. et sp. nov., A. bipolaris sp. nov. and Nais aquatica sp. nov. (Ascomycetes)". Australian Systematic Botany. 5: 117–24. doi:10.1071/SB9920117.


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