Lulworthia

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Lulworthia
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Lulworthiales
Family: Lulworthiaceae
Genus: Lulworthia
G.K. Sutherl.
Type species
Lulworthia fucicola
G.K. Sutherl.

Lulworthia is a genus of fungi within the Lulworthiaceae family.[1]

The genus Lulworthia was originally described in 1916 by George Kenneth Sutherland to contain the species Lulworthia fucicola, a fungus found on the seaweed commonly known as the bladder wrack at Lulworth on the coast of Dorset, UK.[2] The fungus has since been collected several times from submerged wood, but never again from the original algal host; it was subsequently reported that specimens found on wood were morphologically different from those originally described growing on algae.[3] Since the original specimens had deteriorated beyond use, a holotype was designated, using submerged-wood specimens found in Chile in 1984.[4]

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