# Semidelitschia

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***Semidelitschia*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [coprophilous fungi](/source/Coprophilous_fungi) in the family [Delitschiaceae](/source/Delitschiaceae) that contains three species.[1] *Semidelitschia* was [circumscribed](/source/Circumscription_(taxonomy)) in 1969 by mycologists Roy Cain and Robena Luck-Allen to contain the [type species](/source/Type_species), *[Semidelitschia agasmatica](/source/Semidelitschia_agasmatica)* , found in North America. *[Semidelitschia tetraspora](/source/Semidelitschia_tetraspora)* (found in Pakistan) and *[Semidelitschia nanostellata](/source/Semidelitschia_nanostellata)* (from Australia) were added to the genus in 1979 and 2001, respectively.[2][3] The genus is characterized by species with one-celled, dark [ascospores](/source/Ascospore), which distinguishes it from the related genus *[Delitschia](/source/Delitschia)* (Delitschiaceae), which have two-celled ascospores.[4]

## References

1. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). ["Outline of Ascomycota – 2007"](http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp). *Myconet*. **13**: 1–58. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany.

1. Mirza JH, Khan RS (1979). "Studies on coprophilous Ascomycetes of Pakistan III: *Semidelitschia tetraspora* sp. nov.". *Pakistan Journal of Botany*. **11** (1): 99–101.

1. Bell A, Mahoney DP (2001). "*Semidelitschia nannostellata* (Fungi: Dothideales: Sporormiaceae), a new species from Australia". *Muelleria*. **15** (3): 3–6.

1. Cain RF, Luck-Allen ER (1969). ["*Semidelitschia*, a new genus of the Sporormiaceae"](http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59350/0061/003/0580.htm). *Mycologia*. **61** (3): 580–585. [doi:10.2307/3757247](https://doi.org/10.2307/3757247). [JSTOR 3757247](https://www.jstor.org/stable/3757247)

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