CRYPTOMYCINA Höhn. Rhytismatales fam. incert. 1 Ukrainian species on Pteridium.

Cryptomycina pteridis (Rebent.) Höhn. ex Anonym. Status. Native; 13 record since 15 July 1896; abundance not known. Months. May, July, August, September, October, December. Regions. Chernihiv, Kiev, Zhytomyr. Habitat. On fronds of Pteridium aquilinum. Notes. Minter & Dudka listed Cryptomycina filicina (Fr.) L. Holm & K. Holm as occurring in Ukraine, based on a single collection on fronds of Pteridium aquilinum in herb. KW, identified as Leptostroma filicinum Fr., the basionym of Cryptomycina filicina; since Holm & Holm (1978) reported that Cryptomycina filicina probably occurs only on Osmunda, that specimen has been re-examined and found to be a misidentification; Cryptomycina filicina is, accordingly, removed from the list of fungi known from Ukraine. Worldwide. Widely distributed on Pteridium in northern and central Europe, and North America, but rather infrequently recorded. References. Bache-Wiig (1940) [description, illustration]; Minter & Dudka (1996) [Ukrainian records]; Morochovskii, Zerova, Lavitskaya & Smitskaya (1969) [Ukrainian records].