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Chaetothyriothecium elegans

Chaetothyriothecium elegans Hongsanan & K.D. Hyde, Phytotaxa 161(2): 161 (2014).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 588116; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11939, Fig. 1

Description: see Hongsanan et al. (2014).

Material considered: see Hongsanan et al. (2014).

Fig. 1 Chaetothyriothecium elegans (MFLU 13-0091! holotype). a, b Thyriothecia on surface of host. c Thyriothecium with setae around ostiole. d Ostiole surrounded by long setae. e Close up of septate setae. f Hamathecium of sparse pseudoparaphyses embedded in a gelatinous matrix. g–i Asci (g: stained in cotton blue; i: stained in Melzer’s reagent). j–l Ascospore (j: stained in congo red, l: stained in cotton blue). Scale bars: a, b = 100 μm, c = 50 μm, d–f = 10 μm, g–i = 20 μm, j–l = 5 μm.

Importance and distribution

Chaetothyriothecium comprises only one species known on dead leaves of Castanopsis sp. (Fagaceae) in Asia (Thailand).

 

References

Hongsanan S, Chomnunti P, Crous PW, Chukeatirote E, Hyde KD. 2014 – Introducing Chaetothyriothecium , a new genus of Microthyriales. Phytotaxa 161, 157–164.

 

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