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Aquatospora cylindrica

Aquatospora cylindrica W. Dong, H. Zhang & K.D. Hyde, in Dong et al., Fungal Diversity: 10.1007/s13225-020-00463-5, [55] (2020).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 557904; Facesoffungi number: FoF 09246, Fig. 1

Description: see Dong et al. (2020).

Material considered: see Dong et al. (2020).

Fig. 1 Aquatospora cylindrica (MFLU 18-1534, holotype) a Appearance of ascomata on host substrate. b Vertical section through ascomata. c Peridium. d Pseudoparaphyses. e–g Asci. h–k Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 500 µm, b = 200 µm, c, e, f = 50 µm, d = 20 µm, g = 100 µm, h–k = 10 µm.

Importance and distribution

Aquatospora comprises only one species known on decaying wood, submerged in freshwater in Asia (Thailand).

 

References

Dong W, Wang B, Hyde KD, McKenzie EHC et al. 2020 – Freshwater Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 105, 319–575.

Jayasiri SC, Hyde KD, Jones EBG, McKenzie EHC et al. 2019 – Diversity, morphology and molecular phylogeny of Dothideomycetes on decaying wild seed pods and fruits. Mycosphere 10, 1–186.

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.

 

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