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Chaetothyrina musarum

Chaetothyrina musarum (Speg.) Theiss., Annls mycol. 11(6): 495 (1913).

Chaetothyrium musarum Speg., Anal. Mus. nac. Hist. nat. B. Aires 6: 297 (1898).

 Index Fungorum number: IF 239828; Facesoffungi number: FoF 02009, Fig. 1

Description: see Singtripop et al. (2016).

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

Figure 1 Chaetothyrina musarum (BPI 646466). a, b Herbarium label and

specimen. c Appearance of thyriothecia on host. d Thyriothecium when viewed in squash mount. e Section through thyriothecium. f Pseudoparaphyses. g−i Asci. j, k Ascospores. Scale bars: c−e = 100 µm, f, j, k = 10 µm, g, h = 50 µm, i = 30 µm.  

Importance and distribution

There are 21 species epithet of Chaetothyrina in Index Fungorum (2022), but some species have been transferred to Johansonia and Microcallis. Chaetothyrina comprises 15 species known from 14 host plants within 13 families namely, Apocynaceae, Celastraceae, Chrysobalanaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Fagaceae, Gelsemiaceae, Lauraceae, Magnoliaceae, Moraceae, Musaceae, Myrtaceaem, Salicaceae and Vochysiaceae. Chaetothyrina is known from Asia (India, Thailand), Central America (Costa Rica), South America (Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Uruguay) and the United States.

 

References

Hongsanan S, Zhao RL, Hyde KD. 2017 – A new species of Chaetothyrina on branches of mango, and introducing Phaeothecoidiellaceae fam. nov. Mycosphere 8, 137–146.

Singtripop C, Hongsanan S, Li JF, de Silva NI et al. 2016 – Chaetothyrina mangiferae sp. nov., a new species of Chaetothyrina. Phytotaxa 255, 21–33.

 

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