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Fissuroma maculans

Fissuroma maculans (Rehm) Jian K. Liu, E.B.G. Jones & K.D. Hyde, in Liu et al., Fungal Diversity 51(1): 145 (2011).

≡ Metasphaeria maculans Rehm, Philipp. J. Sci., C, Bot. 8(5): 401 (1913).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 563461; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11454, Fig. 1

Description: see Liu et al. (2011); Phookamsak et al. (2015); Wanasinghe et al. (2017).

Material considered: see Liu et al. (2011); Phookamsak et al. (2015); Wanasinghe et al. (2018).

Figure 1 Fissuroma maculans (MFLU 11-1143, holotype). a Ascomata on host

surface. b Section of the ascoma. c Pseudoparaphyses. d–f Asci. g–j Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 1000 μm, b = 100 μm, c, d–f = 30 μm, g–j = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Fissuroma comprises fourteen species known on Arecaceae, Poaceae and Zingiberaceae. Fissuroma has been reported mainly from Asia (Brunei, China, India, Japan, Thailand).

 

References

Liu JK, Phookamsak R, Jones EBG, Zhang Y et al. 2011 – Astrosphaeriella is polyphyletic, with species in Fissuroma gen. nov., and Neoastrosphaeriella gen. nov. Fungal Diversity 51, 135–154.

Phookamsak R, Norphanphoun C, Tanaka K, Dai DQ et al. 2015 – Towards a natural classification of Astrosphaeriella-like species; introducing Astrosphaeriellaceae and Pseudoastrosphaeriellaceae fam. nov. and Astrosphaeriellopsis, gen. nov. Fungal Diversity 74, 143–197.

Suetrong S, Schoch CL, Spatafora JW, Kohlmeyer J et al. 2009 – Molecular systematics of the marine Dothideomycetes. Studies in Mycology 64, 155–173.

Tanaka K, Harada Y. 2005 – Bambusicolous fungi in Japan (4): a new combination, Astrosphaeriella aggregata. Mycoscience 46, 114–118.

Wanasinghe DN, Phukhamsakda C, Hyde KD, Jeewon R et al. 2018 – Fungal diversity notes 709– 839: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa with an emphasis on fungi on Rosaceae. Fungal Diversity 89, 1–236.

 

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