Aquimassariosphaeria
Aquimassariosphaeria W. Dong & Doilom, in Dong et al., Fungal Diversity: 10.1007/s13225-020-00463-5, [106] (2020).
Index Fungorum number: IF 557825; Facesoffungi number: FoF 08733, 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2022), 1 species with molecular data.
Saprobic on submerged wood or dry branches. Sexual morph: Ascomata scattered or solitary, immersed, erumpent to superficial, subglobose to ellipsoidal, black, coriaceous, with ostiolate papilla, sometimes stain substrate purple. Peridium two-layered, outer layer comprising several layers of dark brown to black, thin-walled, compressed cells, inner layer comprising several layers of pale brown to hyaline, thin-walled, large cells of textura angularis. Pseudoparaphyses numerous, cellular, hyaline, septate, embedded in a matrix. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, narrowly clavate, short pedicellate, apically rounded. Ascospores bi- to tri-seriate, narrowly fusiform or vermiform, straight or curved, brown, transversely septate, thin-walled, with or without a sheath. Asexual morph: Unknown (adapted from Dong et al. 2020)
Type species: Aquimassariosphaeria kunmingensis W. Dong, Doilom & K.D. Hyde
Notes: Aquimassariosphaeria resembles Lolia in having fusiform to clavate, multiple transversely septate, brown ascospores and differs in having conidia with apical, sub-apical and basal appendages, which are absent in Aquimassariosphaeria. Molecular markers available for Aquimassariosphaeria include LSU, SSU, TEF-1 and RPB2.
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