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Pontoporeia biturbinata

Pontoporeia biturbinata (Durieu & Mont.) Kohlm., Nova Hedwigia 6: 5 (1963).

≡ Sphaeria biturbinata Durieu & Mont., in Durieu, Expl. Sci. Alg., Fl. Algér. 1(livr. 13): 497 (1848) [1846-49].

           Index Fungorum number: IF 337503; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11556, Fig. 1

Description: see Devadatha and Sarma (2018).

Material considered: see Devadatha and Sarma (2018).

Fig. 1 Pontoporeia biturbinata (AMH-9913, holotype). a, b Appearance of semi-immersed ascomata on host substrate. c Horizontal section through ascoma. d Peridium. e Filiform, branched, septate pseudoparaphyses. f, g Asci with ascospores. h–j Ascospores. Scale bars: c = 100 μm, d–f, h–j = 10 μm, g = 50 μm.

Importance and distribution

Pontoporeia comprises two marine species. Pontoporeia biturbinata was reported on living and drift rhizomes of Posidonia oceanica (Posidoniaceae) in Africa (Algeria) while P. mangrovei is known on decaying wood of Suaeda monoica (Amaranthaceae) in Asia (India).

 

References

Devadatha B, Sarma VV. 2018 – Pontoporeia mangrovei sp. nov, a new marine fungus from an Indian mangrove along with a new geographical and host record of Falciformispora lignatilis. Current Research in Environmental & Applied Mycology (Journal of Fungal Biology) 8, 238–246.

Suetrong S, Schoch CL, Spatafora JW, Kohlmeyer J et al. 2009 – Molecular systematics of the marine Dothideomycetes. Studies in Mycology 64, 155–173.

Zhang Y, Fournier J, Phookamsak R, Bahkali AH, Hyde KD. 2013 – Halotthiaceae fam. nov. (Pleosporales) accommodates the new genus Phaeoseptum and several other aquatic genera. Mycologia 105, 603–609.

 

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