Cephaleuros virescens Kunze ex E.M.Fries 1832
Current name:
Cephaleuros virescens Kunze ex E.M.Fries
Robberg Reserve, Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape, South Africa; on surfaces of leaves on sheltered eastern side, with Phycopeltis spp. (darker orange) - 25 September 2005. Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie)
Publication Details
Cephaleuros virescens Kunze ex E.M.Fries 1832: 327
Published in: Fries, E.[M.] (1832). Systema mycologicum: sistens fungorum ordines, genera et species, huc usque cognitas, quas ad normam methodi naturalis determinavit / disposuit atque descripsit. Volumen III et ultimum. pp. [261]-524, [1]-202 p. ["Index alphabeticus generum, ..."]. Grypiswaldae: Sumptibus Entestii Mauritii.
Original description: 
Type Species
This is the type species (lectotype) of the genus Cephaleuros.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: Surinam; (INA 1996) Type: C. Weigelt; in 1827-1828; on leaves; (INA 1996)
Origin of Species Name
Participle (Latin), becoming green (Stearn 1983).
Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 18 October 2022
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Nomenclatural notes
According to INA, the name was supposedly published by Kunze (with a Latin description?) on the label of a specimen in an informal set of specimens distributed to various herbaria, probably in 1829, dubiously valid even if there were a description. - (10 March 2010) - M.D. Guiry
Suto & Ohtani (2009: 228) cite the authority as Kunze 1827, in Fries 1829. - (27 April 2010) - G.M. Guiry
Habitat notes
Host: Polyalthia longifolia (Mast tree or Cemetery tree); thalli grow subcuticularly on the upper leaf surface (Suto et al., 2014). - (10 July 2014) - G.M. Guiry
On leaves (Nelsen et al. 2011). - (24 August 2011) - G.M. Guiry
Collected on 25 species and one variety belonging to 19 genera and 15 families; frequent and heavily infected collections recorded on Magnolia grandiflora and Persea thunbergii (Suto & Ohtani 2009). - (27 April 2010) - G.M. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 18 October 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 29 March 2025
