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Genus of fungi

Periconia
"Periconia glaucocephala"
Periconia glaucocephala
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Periconia
Tode Ex Fries, 1791
Species
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Synonyms

Periconia is a genus of sac fungi in the order Pleosporales. Fossils of Periconia have been reported from 12 million year old rocks from central England and from Baltic amber from Eocene epoch (34-38 Mya).

References

  1. Tode, Fungi Mecklenburgenses Selecti 2: 2 (1791)
  2. Pound, Matthew J.; Nuñez Otaño, Noelia B.; Romero, Ingrid C.; Lim, Michael; Riding, James B.; O’Keefe, Jennifer M. K. (2022). "The fungal ecology of the Brassington Formation (Middle Miocene) of Derbyshire, United Kingdom, and a new method for palaeoclimate reconstruction". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10. doi:10.3389/fevo.2022.947623. ISSN 2296-701X.
  3. Tischer, Marta; Gorczak, Michał; Bojarski, Błażej; Pawłowska, Julia; Hoffeins, Christel; Hoffeins, Hans Werner; Wrzosek, Marta (2019). "New fossils of ascomycetous anamorphic fungi from Baltic amber". Fungal Biology. 123 (11): 804–819. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2019.08.003.

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Periconia


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