Fungalpedia – Note 2716, Galloea

 

Galloea Alstrup & Søchting.

Citation when using this data: Meng QF et al. – Fungalpedia. 

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Classification: Ascomycota genera incertae sedis, Fungi.

Galloea was introduced by Alstrup et al. (2009) to accommodate the fungus Galloea cladoniicola which grows in galls on thallus of Cladonia chlorophaea. This is a poorly known monotypic genus, distinguished by the abundant aerial hyphae, the reduced conidiophores, and the long, narrowly claviform conidia (Diederich et al. 2024).

Type species: Galloea cladoniicola Alstrup & Søchting, on Cladonia. (Alstrup et al. 2009)

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Galloea.

 

References

Alstrup V, Søchting U. 2009 – Galloea cladoniicola, a new hyphomycetous lichenicolous fungus from Denmark. Graphis Scripta 21 (2), 33–35.

Diederich P, Ertz D, Braun U 2024 – Flora of lichenicolous fungi, Vol. 2, Hyphomycetes. National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg, 2, 1–544.

 

Entry by

Meng QF, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand and School of Public Health, Zunyi Medical University, Guizhou 563000, China.

 

Published online 22 July 2026

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