Xenoastrosphaeriella tornata
Xenoastrosphaeriella tornata (Cooke) Jayasiri & K.D. Hyde, in Jayasiri et al., Mycosphere 10(1): 36 (2019).
≡ Trematosphaeria tornata Cooke, Grevillea 16(no. 79): 91 (1888).
Index Fungorum number: IF 555537; Facesoffungi number: FoF 05238, Fig. 1
Description: see Jayasiri et al. (2019).
Material considered: see Jayasiri et al. (2019).
Fig. 1 Xenoastrosphaeriella tornata (MFLU 11-0232). a Ascostromata visible as cone-like structures on the host surface. b Section through ascostroma. c Peridium structure arranged in a textura angularis to textura intricata. d Pseudoparaphyses. e–g Asci with ascospores. h–k Ascospores. Scale bars: a, b = 500 μm, c–k = 20 μm.
Importance and distribution
Xenoastrosphaeriella comprises only one species known on dead stem of bamboo in Asia (Philippines, Thailand).
References
Hongsanan S, Hyde KD, Phookamsak R, Wanasinghe DN et al. 2020a – Refined families of Dothideomycetes: Dothideomycetidae and Pleosporomycetidae. Mycosphere 11,1553–2107.
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. 2015b – 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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