Kalmusibambusa
Kalmusibambusa Phook., Tennakoon, Thambug. & K.D. Hyde, in Thambugala et al., Mycosphere 8(4): 717 (2017).
Index Fungorum number: IF 553159; Facesoffungi number: FoF 03217, 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2022), 1 species with molecular data.
Saprobic on living culms of bamboo. Sexual morph: Ascostromata gregarious, clustered, immersed in clypeus, visible as raised, erumpent to superficial, elongated with a slit-like opening through host surface, multi-loculate, coriaceous, ostiolate. Locules arranged in rows, immersed in clypeus, globose to sub globose, glabrous, with minute papilla. Peridium thin- to thick-walled, of unequal thickness, composed of several layers of small, dark brown to black pseudoparenchymatous cells, arranged in a textura angularis to textura prismatica. Hamathecium composed of dense, broad cellular pseudoparaphyses, filamentous, septate, anastomosing at the apex, embedded in a gelatinous matrix. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, cylindrical, with short pedicellate, apically rounded with a well-developed, ocular chamber. Ascospores overlapping 1–2- seriate, brown to dark brown, ellipsoidal to fusiform with rounded to acute ends, 3-septate when mature, constricted at the septa, straight to curved, smooth-walled, surrounded by a wide mucilaginous sheath. Asexual morph: Unknown (adapted from Thambugala et al. 2017).
Type species: Kalmusibambusa triseptata Phookamsak, Tennakoon & K.D. Hyde
Notes: Kalmusibambusa resembles Kalmusia, but is easily differentiated by its multi-loculate, coriaceous, elongated ascostromata, with a slit-like opening through host surface and cylindrical asci. Kalmusibambusa is a well-supported and distinct genus in Didymosphaeriaceae. Molecular markers available for Kalmusibambusa include LSU, SSU and ITS.
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