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Discopycnothyrium palmae

Discopycnothyrium palmae Hongsanan & K.D. Hyde, Mycotaxon 131(4): 863 (2017) [2016]

Index Fungorum number: IF 551023; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00570, Fig. 1

Description: see Hongsanan et al. (2016).

Material considered: see Hongsanan et al. (2016).

Fig. 1 Discopycnothyrium palmae (MFLU 13-0485, holotype). a Pycnothyria on surface of host. b Vertical section through pycnothyrium. c Pycnothyrium when viewed in squash mounts. d Upper wall of pycnothyrium when viewed in squash mounts. e Darkened cells around ostiole. f Aseptate hyphae without appressoria. g, h Conidiogenous cells giving rise to pycnothyriospores. i Mature pycnothyriospore. j, k, l Immature pycnothyriospore. Scale bars: a = 200 μm, b, c = 100 μm, d–h, j, k = 10 μm, i = 20 μm.

Importance and distribution

Discopycnothyrium comprises only one species known on branches of palm (Arecaceae) in Asia (Thailand).

 

References

Hofmann TA. 2010 – Plant parasitic Asterinaceae and Microthyriaceae from the Neotropics (Panama). PhD thesis. The faculty of biological sciences at the J.W. Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 408 p.

Hongsanan S, Bahkali A, Chomnunti P, Liu JK, Yang JB, Hyde K. 2016 – Discopycnothyrium palmae gen. & sp. nov. (Asterinaceae). Mycotaxon 131, 859–869. https://doi.org/10.5248/131.859

Hongsanan S, Li YM, Liu JK, Hofmann T et al. 2014 – Revision of genera in Asterinales. Fungal Diversity 68, 1–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13225-014-0307-4

 

 

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