Brachysporiella gayana
Brachysporiella gayana Bat., in Batista & Vital, Bol. Secr. Agric. (Pernambuco) 19(1-2): 109 (1952).
Index Fungorum number: IF 120523; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11934 , Fig. 1
Description: see Hernández-Restrepo et al. (2017).
Material considered: see Hernández-Restrepo et al. (2017).
Fig. 1 Conidiophores and conidia of Brachysporiella navarrica (re-drawn from Chen and Tzean in BCRC 2023). Scale bars = 10 μm.
Importance and distribution
There are 15 Brachysporiella epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but four species have been transferred to Acarocybellina, Endophragmiella and Physalidiopsis. Brachysporiella comprises eleven species known on several host plants such as Archontophoenix alexandrae (Arecaceae), Bambusa sp. (Poaceae), Calamus sp. (Arecaceae), Cocos nucifera (Arecaceae), Dendrocalamus sp. (Poaceae), Drymophloeus pachycladus (Arecaceae), Elaeis guineensis (Arecaceae), Eleiodoxa conferta (Arecaceae), Eucalyptus sp. (Myrtaceae), Euterpe edulis (Arecaceae) amongst others. Brachysporiella is reported from Africa (Seychelles, Sierra Leone), Asia (Hong Kong, Thailand), Oceania (Australia, Samoa), South America (Argentina) and The United States (Florida).
References
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Hernández-Restrepo M, Gené J, Castañeda-Ruiz RF, Mena-Portales J, Crous PW, Guarro J –Phylogeny of saprobic microfungi from Southern Europe. Studies in Mycology 86, 53–97.
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Ranghoo VM, Hyde KD. 1998 – Ascomycetes from freshwater habitats: Ascolacicola aquatica gen. et sp. nov. and a new species of Ascotaiwania from wood submerged in a reservoir in Hong Kong. Mycologia 90, 1055–1062.
Réblová M, Miller AN, Rossman AY. 2016 – Recommendations for competing sexual-asexually typified generic names in Sordariomycetes (except Diaporthales, Hypocreales, and Magnaporthales). IMA Fungus 7, 131–153.
Sivichai S, HyweI-Jones N, Jones EBG. 1998 – Lignicolous freshwater Ascomycota from Thailand: 1. Ascotaiwania sawada and its anamorph state Monotosporella. Mycoscience 39, 307–311.
Tzean S, Chen J. 2023 – Brachysporiella navarrica. https://www.bcrc.firdi.org.
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