Ligninsphaeria jonesii
Ligninsphaeria jonesii Jin F. Zhang, Jian K. Liu, K.D. Hyde & Zi Y. Liu, in Zhang et al., Phytotaxa 247(2): 113 (2016).
Index Fungorum number: IF 551758; Facesoffungi number: FoF 01636, Fig. 1
Description: see Zhang et al. (2016).
Material considered: see Zhang et al. (2016).
Fig. 1 Ligninsphaeria jonesii (MFLU 15-2718). a Ascomata immersed in bamboo host. b Vertical section through ascoma. c Long immersed ostiole. d Section of peridium. e Pseudoparaphyses. f–h Asci. i–l Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 200 μm, b = 100 μm, c = 50 μm, d, e = 5 μm, f–l = 20 μm.
Importance and distribution
Ligninsphaeria comprises only one species known on decaying culms of bamboo (Poaceae) in Asia (Thailand).
References
Hirayama K, Tanaka K. 2011 – Taxonomic revision of Lophiostoma and Lophiotrema based on reevaluation of morphological characters and molecular analyses. Mycoscience 52, 401–412.
Zhang JF, Liu JK, Hyde KD, Liu YX et al. 2016 – Ligninsphaeria jonesii gen. et. sp. nov., a remarkable bamboo inhabiting ascomycete. Phytotaxa 247, 109–117.
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