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Neokalmusia brevispora

Neokalmusia brevispora (Nagas. & Y. Otani) Kaz. Tanaka, Ariyaw. & K.D. Hyde, in Ariyawansa et al., Fungal Diversity 68: 92 (2014).

≡ Phaeosphaeria arundinacea var. brevispora Nagas. & Y. Otani, Rep. Tottori Mycol. Inst. 15: 38 (1977).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 550701; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00051, Fig. 1

Description: see Ariyawansa et al. (2014).

Material considered: see Ariyawansa et al. (2014).

Fig. 1 Neokalmusia brevispora (KT 1466, modified from Fig. 13 in Ariyawansa et al. 2014). a, b Appearance of ascomata on host surface. c Section through ascomata. d Peridium. e Cellular pseudoparaphyses. f, g Asci with ascospores. h–k Ascospores. Scale bars: a, b = 1 mm, c, d = 100 μm, e–k = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Neokalmusia comprises six species. Neokalmusia arundinis is known on dead stems of Arundo pliniana (Poaceae) in Europe (Italy), N. brevispora is known from dead twigs of Sasa sp. (Poaceae) in Asia (Japan), while N. didymospora, N. kunmingensis, N. scabrispora and N. thailandica are known on dead bamboo Bambusoideae (Poaceae) in Asia (China, Thailand).

 

References

Ariyawansa HA, Tanaka K, Thambugala KM, Phookamsak R et al. 2014 – A molecular phylogenetic reappraisal of the Didymosphaeriaceae (= Montagnulaceae). Fungal Diversity 68, 69–104.

Zhang Y, Crous PW, Schoch CL, Hyde KD. 2012 – Pleosporales. Fungal Diversity 52, 1–225.

 

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