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Mucomycosphaerella
Mucomycosphaerella eurypotami
Mucomycosphaerella eurypotami (Kohlm., Volkm.-Kohlm. & O.E. Erikss.) Quaedvl. & Crous, in Quaedvlieg et al., Persoonia 33: 22 (2014).
≡ Mycosphaerella eurypotami Kohlm., Volkm.-Kohlm. & O.E. Erikss., Bot. Mar. 42(6): 505 (1999).
Index Fungorum number: IF 807792; Facesoffungi number: FoF 09727, Fig. 1
Description: see Quaedvlieg et al. (2014).
Material examined: see Quaedvlieg et al. (2014).
Fig. 1 Mucomycosphaerella eurypotami (Kohlmeyer 5586, holotype; redrawn from Kohlmeyer et al. 1999). a Immature asci and ascospores. b Mature asci. c, d Mature ascospores. Scale bars: a−c = 10 µm.
Importance and distribution
Mucomycosphaerella comprises only one species known on senescent leaves of Juncus roemerianus (Juncaceae) in the United States (North Carolina).
References
Crous PW, Braun U, Groenewald JZ. 2007 – Mycosphaerella is polyphyletic. Studies in Mycology 58, 1–32
Crous PW, Summerell BA, Carnegie AJ, Wingfield MJ. 2009 – Unravelling Mycosphaerella: do you believe in genera? Persoonia 23, 99–118.
Hongsanan S, Hyde KD, Phookamsak R, Wanasinghe DN et al. 2020 – Refined families of Dothideomycetes: Dothideomycetidae and Pleosporomycetidae. Mycosphere 11, 1553–2107.
Kohlmeyer J, Volkmann-Kohlmeyer B, Eriksson OE. 1995 – Fungi on Juncus roemerianus 2. New dictyosporous ascomycetes. Botanica Marina 38, 165–174.
Kohlmeyer J, Volkmann-Kohlmeyer B, Eriksson OE. 1999 – Fungi on Juncus roemerianus 12. Two new species of Mycosphaerella and Paraphaeosphaeria (Ascomycotina). Botanica Marina 42, 505–511.
Quaedvlieg W, Binder M, Groenewald JZ, Summerell BA et al. 2014 – Introducing the consolidated species concept to resolve species in the Teratosphaeriaceae. Persoonia 33, 1–40.
Verkley GJM, Crous PW, Groenewald JZ, Braun U, Aptroot A. 2004 – Mycosphaerella punctiformis revisited: morphology, phylogeny, and epitypification of the type species of the genus Mycosphaerella (Dothideales, Ascomycota). Mycological Research 108, 1271–1282.
