Halici, Mehmet Gökhan, Jana Kocourkova, Paul Diederich & Ahmet Aksoy. Endococcus variabilis, a new species on Staurothele areolata. Mycotaxon 100: 337–342. 2007.

ABSTRACT: Endococcus variabilis is described as a new species from the thallus of Staurothele areolata in Turkey and Austria. It differs from most other species of the genus in the 4–6(–8) spored asci and verrucose ascospores, from E. zahlbrucknerellae in ascomatal and ascospore size, and from all known species by the host selection.

KEYWORDS: lichenicolous fungi, Dothideales, Ascomycota