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Megalohypha aqua-dulces

Megalohypha aqua-dulces A. Ferrer & Shearer, in Ferrer, Sivichai & Shearer, Mycologia 99(3): 458 (2007).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 505742; Facesoffungi number: FoF11931, Fig. 1

Description:

Saprobic on host. Sexual morph: Ascomata, peridium and asci not observed from microslide. Hamathecium 1.5−2.0 µm pseudoparaphysate, comprising septate cellular branched pseudoparaphyses. Ascospores 50−57 × 17−28 µm (x̄ = 53.8 × 23.6 µm, n = 10), brown to dark brown, uniseptate, ellipsoidal, symmetrical, rough-walled, longitudinally striate, middle septum darker brown, smooth-walled. Asexual morph: Unknown.

Material examined: Panama, Colon, Soberania National Park, Juan Grande River, on submerged decorticated wood, 12 January 2003, A. Ferrer (ILL00086247, Type).

Fig. 1 Megalohypha aqua-dulces (ILL00086247, Type). a, b Microslide. c–f Cellular pseudo paraphyses and ascospores. Scale bars: c–f = 50 μm.

Importance and distribution

Megalohypha comprises only one species known on decorticated wood submerged in river in Central America (Panama).

 

References

Ferrer A, Sivichai S, Shearer CA. 2007 – Megalohypha a new genus in the Jahnulales from aquatic habitats in the tropics. Mycologia 99, 456–460.

Inderbitzin P, Landvik S, Abdel-Wahab MA, Berbee ML. 2001 – Aliquandostipitaceae, a new family for two new tropical ascomycetes with unusually wide hyphae and dimorphic ascomata. American Journal of Botany 88, 52–61.

Raja HA, Ferrer A, Shearer CA. 2005 – Aliquandostipite crystallinus, a new ascomycete species from wood submerged in freshwater habitats. Mycotaxon 91, 207–215.

 

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