Reinwardtia (Nov 2015)

NOTES ON RESUPINATE HYMENOMYCETES—I On Pellicularia Cooke

  • M. A. DONK

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 3

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The author concludes that Pellicularia Cooke is to be regarded as the name ofan inseparable mixtum compositum (nomen confusum) and hence as illegitimate (im-priorable). He believes that, apart from a hypothetical gelatinous medium, Cooke'soriginal material consisted of the combination of the vegetative hyphae of a resupinatehymenomycete and the spores of a pervading imperfect fungus. If one of these con-stituent elements were to be selected as type, the choice would be the spores ratherthan the vegetative hyphae selected by Rogers.

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