Acanthostigmella genuflexa
Acanthostigmella genuflexa Höhn., Annls mycol. 3(4): 327 (1905).
≡ Acanthostigma genuflexum (Höhn.) Sacc. & Trotter, in Saccardo, Syll. fung. (Abellini) 22: 209 (1913).
≡ Tubeufia genuflexa (Höhn.) Arx & E. Müll., Stud. Mycol. 9: 83 (1975).
Index Fungorum number: IF 207229; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00193, Fig. 1
Description: see Boonmee et al. (2014).
Material considered: see Boonmee et al. (2014).
Fig. 1 Acanthostigmella genuflexa (a, b holotype FH, c–l Material of herb. K, as IMI 252801). a, b Herbarium package and specimen. c Ascomata with long setae. d Peridial wall. e–g Immature and mature asci (f, g: stained in cotton blue). h–l Ascospores (l: stained in cotton blue). Scale bars: b = 100 μm, c = 20 μm, d = 40 μm, e–g =10 μm, h–l = 5 μm.
Importance and distribution
Acanthostigmella comprises two species known on six host plants (Phalaris sp., Phragmites communis, Hypoxylon mammatum (Xylariaceae), Salix sp., Taxus canadensis, Costus spiralis) and four plant families Costaceae, Poaceae, Salicaceae and Taxaceae. Acanthostigmella is reported from Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago), Europe (Austria, United Kingdom) and North America (Canada).
References
Barr ME. 1977 – Acanthostigmella (Herpotrichiellaceae). Mycotaxon 6, 17–23.
Barr ME. 1980 – On the family Tubeufiaceae (Pleosporales). Mycotaxon 12, 137–167.
Boonmee S, Rossman AY, Liu JK, Li W et al. 2014 – Tubeufiales, ord. nov., integrating sexual and asexual generic names. Fungal Diversity 68, 239–298.
Rossman AY. 1987 – The Tubeufiaceae and similar Loculoascomycetes. Mycological Papers 157, 1–71.
Untereiner WA, Straus NA, Malloch D. 1995 – A molecular-morphotaxonomic approach to the systematics of the Herpotrichiellaceae and allied black yeasts. Mycological Research 99, 897–913.
Von Höhnel F. 1905 – Mycologische Fragmente. LXXVII-XCVII. Annales Mycologici 3, 323–339.
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