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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

Barr ME, Huhndorf SM. 2001 – Loculoascomycetes. In: McLaughlin DJ, McLaughlin EG, Lemke PA (eds) The mycota VII, part A. Systematics and evolution. Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp 283–305.

Barr ME. 1990 – Some dictyosporous genera and species of Pleosporales in North America. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 62, 1–92.

Fröhlich J, Hyde KD. 1998 – Fungi from palms. XXXIX. Asymmetricospora gen. et sp. nov. (Melanommataceae). Sydowia 50, 182–186.

Holm L, Holm K. 1988 – Studies in the Lophiostmataceae with emphasis on the Swedish species. Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses 28, 1–50.

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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