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Wettsteinina gigantospora

Wettsteinina gigantospora (Rehm) Höhn., Sber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math. -naturw. Kl., Abt. 1 116: 129 (1907).

Massarina gigantospora Rehm, in Voss, Verh. Kaiserl. -Königl. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 37: 216 (1887).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 185658; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12530, Fig. 1

Description: see Barr (1972); Müller (1950); Shoemaker and Babcock (1987, 1989b); Zhang et al. (2012).

Material examined: see Barr (1972); Müller (1950); Shoemaker and Babcock (1987, 1989b); Zhang et al. (2012).

 

Fig. 1 Wettsteinina spp. a, b W. niesslii (redrawn from Scheuer 1995, lectotype). a Longitudinal section of ascoma. b Young, mature and senescent ascospores. c–e W. moniliformis (redrawn from Van Ryckegem and Aptroot 2001, holotype, GENT). c Ascospore. d Pseudo paraphyses filament. e Ascus. Scale bars: a = 50 μm, b, d = 20 μm, c, e = 10 μm.

 

Importance and distribution

There are 58 Wettsteinina epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but several species have been transferred to Diadema, Didymella, Didymolepta, Dothiora, Extrawettsteinina, Kriegeriella, Leptosphaeria and Planistromella. Wettsteinina comprises 46 species known on a wide range of plants such as Arctagrostis latifolia (Poaceae), Bupleurum junceum (Apiaceae), Carex rostrata (Cyperaceae), Carissa spinarum (Apocynaceae), Cassiope tetragona (Ericaceae), Colpodium vahlianum (Poaceae), Coptis trifolia var. groenlandica (Ranunculaceae), Corylus avellana (Betulaceae), Phippsia algida (Poaceae), Poa sp. (Poaceae), Puccinellia angustata (Poaceae) and Selaginella stauntoniana (Selaginellaceae). Wettsteinina is reported from Asia (China, India, Russia), Australia, Europe (Austria, Denmark, France, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom) and North America (Canada, Greenland).

 

References

Barr ME. 1972 – Preliminary studies on the Dothideales in temperate North America. Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium 9, 523–638.

Clements FE, Shear CL. 1931 – The genera of fungi. New York, 496.

Farr DF, Bills GF, Chamuris GP, Rossman AY. 1989 – Fungi on plants and plant products in the United States. APS Press, St. Paul.

Hohnel, F. Von. 1907 – Fragmente zur Mykologie. 128. Wettsteinina n.g. Sitzungsber. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss. Wien Math. Naturwiss. Kl. Abt. 1 116, 126–129.

Kodsueb R, Dhanasekaran V, Aptroot A, Lumyong S, McKenzie E, Hyde KD, Jeewon R. 2006 – The family Pleosporaceae: Intergeneric relationships and phylogenetic perspectives based on sequence analyses of partial 28S rDNA. Mycologia 98, 571–583.

Locquin MV. 1972 – Synopsis generalis fungorum, excerpts ex libro `De Taxia Fungorum'. Reviews Mycological Papers Supplement.

Müller E. 1950 – Die schweizerischen Arten der Gattung Leptosphaeria und ihrer Verwandten. Sydowia 4, 185–319.

Scheuer C. 1995 – Lectotypification of Wettsteinina niesslii (Dothideales s.l, Ascomycetes). Mycotaxon 54, 173–178.

Schoch CL, Crous PW, Groenewald JZ, Boehm EW et al. 2009 – A class-wide phylogenetic assessment of Dothideomycetes. Studies in Mycology 64, 1–15S10.

Shoemaker RA, Babcock CE. 1987 – Additions to Nodulosphaeria. Canadian Journal of Botany 65, 1921–1926.

Theissen F, Sydow H. 1918 – Vorentwurfe zu den Pseudosphaeriales. Annales Mycologici 16, 1–34.

Van Ryckegem G, Aptroot A. 2001 – A new Massarina and a new Wettsteinina (Ascomycota) from freshwater and tidal reeds. Nova Hedwigia 73, 161–166. 

Zhang Y, Crous PW, Schoch CL, Hyde KD. 2012 – Pleosporales. Fungal Diversity 53, 1–221.

 

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