Species of Sphaerellopsis (sexual morph Eudarluca) are well-known cosmopolitan mycoparasites occurring on a wide range of rusts. Although their potential role as biocontrol agents has received some attention, the molecular phylogeny of the genus has never been resolved. Based on morphology and DNA sequence data of the large subunit nuclear ribosomal RNA gene (LSU, 28S) and the internal transcri...

ITS rDNA sequence data shows that Diploicia and Diplotomma species form a monophyletic clade distinct from other Buellia species. This indicates that Diplotomma merits acceptance as a genus, and suggests that Diploicia should be treated as a synonym of Diplotomma, the earlier name. The data also shows Diploicia subcanescens, considered the fertile counterpart in a species pair with D. canescens...

A checklist of lichens and lichenicolous fungi Sierra Nevada (Granada, southeast Spain) is presented, fruit the collecting field trip carried out by Spanish Lichen Society (SEL), complemented with literature references. The authors identified 194 taxa (171 23 fungi). As a result these identifications, 46 nine are reported for first time in Nevada. To date, catalogue includes 551 (528 We confirm...

Pleurotus eryngii is a mushroom growing in the Bakhtiari province of Iran and is known as a mountain fungus. The fresh fungus is used as a food, and when dried its powder has been used as an anthelmintic drug. We decided to study the anthelmintic activity of P. eryngii on Hymenolepis nana (cestode) and Syphacia obvelata (nematode), using experimental animals. Water extract of P. eryngii wa...

Lichens are outstanding examples of fungal symbioses that form long-lived structures, the lichen thalli, in which a multiplicity other microorganisms hosted. Among these, microfungi seem to establish diverse trophic relationships with their hosts. The most specialised these fungi parasitic lichenicolous fungi, diversity has hardly been explained as proxy for species. Here, we used an exemplar d...