Mauritiana rhizophorae
Mauritiana rhizophorae Poonyth, K.D. Hyde, Aptroot & Peerally, Fungal Diversity 4: 102 (2000).
Index Fungorum number: IF 464706; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11555, Fig. 1
Description: see Poonyth et al. (2000).
Material considered: see Poonyth et al. (2000).
Fig. 1 Mauritiana rhizophorae (re-drawn from Figs. 1, 2, 5, 6 in Zainuddin et al. 2008). a Section through ascoma. b Peridium. c Paraphyses. d Ascus. e Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 50 μm, b = 10 μm, c = 5 μm, d, e = 10 μm.
Importance and distribution
Mauritiana comprises only one species known as a marine fungus on dead, decorticated wood of Rhizophora mucronata (Rhizophoraceae) in Africa (Mauritius).
References
Hyde KD, Mouzouras R. 1988 – Passeriniella savoryellopsis sp. nov., a new ascomycete from intertidal mangrove wood. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 91, 179−185.
Poonyth AD, Hyde KD, Aptroot A, Peerally A. 2000 – Mauritiana rhizophorae gen. et sp. nov. (Ascomycetes, Requienellaceae), with a list of terrestrial saprobic mangrove fungi. Fungal Diversity 4, 101–116.
Zainuddin N, Sharuddin SS, Alias S. 2008 – Occurrence of Marine Fungi from the Straits of Malacca, Malaysia, with First Record of Mauritiana rhizhoporae. Malaysian Journal of Science 27, 61–69.
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