Katumotoa bambusicola
Katumotoa bambusicola Kaz. Tanaka & Y. Harada, Mycoscience 46(5): 313 (2005).
Index Fungorum number: IF 504387; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11558, Fig.1
Description: see Tanaka and Harada (2005).
Material examined: see Tanaka and Harada (2005).
Fig. 1 Katumotoa bambusicola (re-drawn from Fig. 23 in Tanaka and Harada 2015). a, b Mature ascospores with bipolar sheath and compact regions having cone-shaped chambers. c Senescent ascospore with four septa and brown mid cell. d Ascus. a, b, d from HHUF 28663; c from HHUF 28661. Scale bars: a, b = 5 μm, c, d = 10 μm.
Importance and distribution
Katumotoa comprises only one species known from culms of Sasa kurilensis (Poaceae) in Asia (Japan (Honshu)).
References
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Huhndorf SM. 1994 – Neotropical Ascomycetes 5. Hypsostromataceae, a new family of Loculoascomycetes and Manglicola samuelsii, a new species from Guyana. Mycologia 86, 266–269.
Tanaka K, Harada Y. 2003 – Pleosporales in Japan (3). The genus Massarina. Mycoscience 44, 173–185.
Tanaka K, Harada Y. 2005 – Bambusicolous fungi in Japan (6): Katumotoa, a new genus of phaeosphaeriaceous ascomycetes. Mycoscience 46, 313–318.
Tanaka K, Hirayama K, Yonezawa H. 2015 – Revision of the Massarineae (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes) Studies in Mycology 82, 75–136.
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