Diversity in Fossil Fungal Spores Article
Mycosphere 12(1): 670–874 (2021) www.mycosphere.org ISSN 2077 7019 Article Doi 10.5943/mycosphere/12/1/8 Diversity in fossil fungal spores Saxena RK1, Wijayawardene NN2,3, Dai DQ3, Hyde KD4 and Kirk PM5 1Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, 53 University Road, Lucknow–226007, India 2State Key Laboratory of Functions and Applications of Medicinal Plants, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang 550014, P.R. China 3Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, P.R. China 4Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand 5Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS, UK Saxena RK, Wijayawardene NN, Dai DQ, Hyde KD, Kirk PM 2021 – Diversity in fossil fungal spores. Mycosphere 12(1), 670–874, Doi 10.5943/mycosphere/12/1/8 Abstract Diverse types of fungal spores, exhibiting a variety of morphological variations, have been added to the fossil records from time to time. These may be unicellate (unicellular), dicellate, tricellate, tetracellate, multicellate, muriform, filiform, spirally coiled and star-like. Similarly, these may be inaperturate, monoaperturate, diaperturate, triaperturate and multiaperturate. The present paper documents all published fossil fungal spore genera and species. Assignment of fossil fungal spores to extant fungal taxa is seldom possible. These are therefore placed into artificial supra- generic taxa based on morphological characters,
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