Ovicuculispora parmeliae

Ovicuculispora parmeliae is a widely distributed species of lichenicolous fungus in the family Bionectriaceae. It is parasitic on many foliose lichen species, particularly those in the family Parmeliaceae.

Ovicuculispora parmeliae
Ovicuculispora parmeliae (pinkish-orange colour) parasitising a species of Physcia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Sordariomycetes
Order:	Hypocreales
Family:	Bionectriaceae
Genus:	Ovicuculispora
Species:	O. parmeliae
Binomial name
Ovicuculispora parmeliae (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Etayo (2010)
Synonyms[1]
Diplodia parmeliae Berk. & M.A.Curtis (1874) Diplodina parmeliae (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Sacc. (1884) Nectria parmeliae (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) D.Hawksw. (1981) Nectriopsis parmeliae (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) M.S.Cole & D.Hawksw. (2001)

Taxonomy

The fungus was first formally described as a new species by mycologists Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis in 1874 as Diplodia parmeliae.^[2] It was later placed in the genera Nectria by David L. Hawksworth in 1981,^[3] and then Nectriopsis by Mariette Cole and Hawksworth in 2001.^[4] In 2010, Javier Etayo circumscribed the new genus Ovicuculispora, and assigned O. parmeliae as the type species.^[5]