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Cryptoclypeus ryukyuensis

Cryptoclypeus ryukyuensis A. Hashim. & Kaz. Tanaka, in Hashimoto et al., Persoonia 39: 63 (2017).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 819247; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11590, Fig. 1

Description: see Hashimoto et al. (2017).

Material considered: see Hashimoto et al. (2017).

Fig. 1 Cryptoclypeus ryukyuensis (re-drawn from Fig. 8 in Hashimoto et al. 2017). a Appearance of ascomata on substrate. b Longitudinal section through ascoma. c Peridium. d Pseudo paraphyses. e Ascus. f Ascospores. g, h Conidiogenous cells. i Conidia. Scale bars: a = 200 μm, b–f = 10 μm, g–i =5 μm.

Importance and distribution

Cryptoclypeus comprises two species known on Pandanus sp. (Pandanaceae) in Asia (Thailand). Cryptoclypeus oxysporus is known on dead culm of Sasa while C. ryukyuensis has been reported on dead culm of Pleioblastus linearis (Poaceae) in Japan (Honshu and Nansei-shoto respectively).

 

References

Dai D, Bhat DJ, Liu J, Chukeatirote E, Zhao R, Hyde KD. 2012 – Bambusicola, a new genus from bamboo with asexual and sexual morphs. Cryptogamie Mycologie 33, 363–790.

Hashimoto A, Matsumura M, Hirayama K, Tanaka K. 2017 – Revision of Lophiotremataceae (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes): Aquasubmersaceae, Cryptocoryneaceae, and Hermatomycetaceae fam. nov. Persoonia 39, 51–73.

Tanaka K, Hirayama K, Yonezawa H, Hatakeyama S et al. 2009 – Molecular taxonomy of bambusicolous fungi: Tetraplosphaeriaceae, a new pleosporalean family with Tetraploa-like anamorphs. Studies in Mycology 64, 175–209.

 

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