Meliola

Genus of fungi

Meliola

I. Meliola plebeja Speg.

II. Meliola longipoda Gaill. III. Meliola obducens Gaill. IV. Meliola laxa Gaill. V. Meliola parenchymatica Gaill.

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Fungi
Division:  | Ascomycota
Class:  | Sordariomycetes
Order:  | Meliolales
Family:  | Meliolaceae
Genus:  | Meliola
Fr. (1825)
Type species
Meliola nidulans

(Schwein.) Cooke (1882)

Synonyms[1]

* Arberia Nieuwl. (1916)
* Asteridium (Sacc.) Speg. ex Sacc. (1891)
* Asterina subgen. Asteridium Sacc. (1882)
* Chaetomeliola (Cif.) Bat., H.Maia & M.L.Farr (1962)
* Laeviomeliola Bat. (1960)
* Meliola subgen. Chaetomeliola Cif. (1938)
* Meliothecium Mussat (1901)
* Myxothecium Kunze 1829

Meliola is a large genus of fungi in the family Meliolaceae. It was circumscribed by Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries in 1825.[1][2]

## Species

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As of October 2022[update], Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 1701 species of Meliola,[3] Outline of Fungi notes 1700 species.[4] Species in the genus include:

* Meliola brevispora
* Meliola evansii
* Meliola mangiferae
* Meliola wainioi
* Meliola zangii

See also List of Meliola species

## References

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1. ^ a b "Meliola". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
2. ^ Fries, E.M. (1825). "Sphaeriacei". Systema orbis vegetabilis (Lundae) (in Latin). Vol. 1\. p. 111.
3. ^ Source dataset. Species Fungorum Plus: Species Fungorum for CoL+. "Meliola". Catalog of Life Version 2022-09-25. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
4. ^ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456\. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.

Taxon identifiers

Meliola|

* Wikidata: Q6812546
* AusFungi: 60013952
* CoL: 5NR3
* EoL: 18899
* EPPO: 1MLLAG
* GBIF: 2554020
* iNaturalist: 353126
* IndexFungorum: 3100
* IRMNG: 1333967
* MycoBank: 3100
* NBN: NHMSYS0001489308
* NCBI: 66277
* NZOR: 970d47ec-d87f-4be1-a8a1-5408fbf53b0d
* Open Tree of Life: 981638
* SpeciesFungorum: 3100

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