Otthia spiraeae
Otthia spiraeae (Fuckel) Fuckel, Jb. nassau. Ver. Naturk. 23-24: 170 (1870) [1869-70].
≡ Cucurbitaria spiraeae Fuckel, Fungi rhenani exsic., fasc. 10: no. 975 (1864).
Index Fungorum number: IF 166179; Facesoffungi number: FoF 04655, Fig. 1
Description: see Phillips et al. (2005, 2013); Doilom et al. (2018).
Material considered: see Phillips et al. (2005, 2013); Doilom et al. (2018).
Fig. 1 Otthia spiraeae (S-F88441, holotype, re-illustrated from Doilom et al. 2018). a Herbarium material and specimen. b Appearance of ascostromata on host substrate. c, d Vertical section through ascostromata. e Peridium. f Pseudoparaphyses. g–i Asci. j–l Ascospores. Note: f, g, l stained in lactophenol cotton blue. Scale bars: c, d = 100 µm, e, g–i, l = 20 µm, f, j, k = 10 µm.
Importance and distribution
There are 64 Otthia epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but several species have been transferred to Amphisphaeria, Apiosporina, Byssosphaeria, Cucurbitaria, Cytospora, Didymella, Dothidotthia, Gibbera, Immotthia, Melanomma, Otthiella, Phaeobotryon and Phyllachora. Otthia comprises 39 species known on a range of plants such as Acer pseudoplatanus (Sapindaceae), Ailanthus excelsa (Simaroubaceae), Artemisia turanica (Asteraceae), Berberis heteropoda (Berberidaceae), Butea monosperma (Fabaceae), Malus sylvestris (Rosaceae), Pistacia mutica (Anacardiaceae), Salix waldsteiniana (Salicaceae), Sambucus caerulea (Adoxaceae) and Spiraea lindleyana (Rosaceae). Otthia is reported from Asia (China, India, Pakistan, Russia), Europe (Denmark, Germany, Poland, Ukraine) and the United States (Washington).
References
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