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Ascoporia lateritia

Ascoporia lateritia Samuels & A.I. Romero, Bolm Mus. paraense 'Emílio Goeldi', sér. bot. 7(2): 264 (1993) [1991].

           Index Fungorum number: IF 360813; Facesoffungi number: FoF 07946, Fig. 1

Description: see Hyde et al. (2013).

Material considered: see Hyde et al. (2013).

Fig. 1 Ascoporia lateritia (BPI 1109903, isotype, re-illustrated from Fig. 13 in Hyde et al. 2013). a Ascostroma on substrate in surface view. b Crowded brown mycelium surrounding ascostroma. c, d Section through ascostroma showing arrangement of locules. e Cells of ascostroma. f Hamathecium. g–i Immature and mature asci in 3 % KOH. j–l Ascospores. Note remnants of mucilage in j and k. Scale bars: a = 5 mm, b =1 mm, c–d = 200 μm, e = 10 μm, f = 5 μm, g–i = 50 μm, j–l = 20 μm.

Importance and distribution

Ascoporia comprises only one species known on decorticated wood in South America (Brazil).

 

Reference

Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Liu JK, Ariyawansa H et al. 2013 – Families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 63, 1–313.

 

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