Towyspora
Towyspora Wanas., E.B.G. Jones & K.D. Hyde, in Li et al., Fungal Diversity 78: 10.1007/s13225-016-0366-9, [32] (2016).
Index Fungorum number: IF 551787; Facesoffungi number: FoF 01671, 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2022), 1 species with molecular data.
Saprobic on Phragmites communis. Sexual morph: Unknown. Asexual morph: Conidiomata pycnidial, stromatic, mostly solitary, semi-immersed to immersed in the host, uni- to multi-loculate, globose to subglobose, dark brown to black, ostiolate, apapillate. Peridium comprising 2–3 layers, pigmented, thin-walled, comprising blackish to dark brown, angular cells. Conidiogenous cells phialidic, discrete, ampulliform to cylindric-clavate, hyaline, aseptate, smooth. Conidia hyaline, 1-celled, oblong to cylindrical, with rounded or obtuse ends, transversely euseptate, smooth and thin-walled, guttulate (adapted from Li et al. 2016).
Type species: Towyspora aestuari Wanas., E.B.G. Jones & K.D. Hyde
Notes: Towyspora resembles Setoseptoria in having hyaline, subcylindrical conidiogenous cells and transversely euseptate, hyaline, smooth-walled, subcylindrical conidia, with one large central guttule per cell. Towyspora differs from Setoseptoria in having smaller conidia. Phylogenetically, Towyspora is a distinct genus in Lentitheciaceae. Molecular markers available for Towyspora are ITS, LSU and SSU.
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