Byssosphaeria keithii
Byssosphaeria keithii (Berk. & Broome) Cooke [as 'keitii'], Grevillea 7(no. 43): 84 (1879).
≡ Sphaeria keithii Berk. & Broome, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., Ser. 4 17: 144 (1876).
Index Fungorum number: IF 532499; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00766, Fig. 1
Description: see Tian et al. (2015).
Material considered: see Tian et al. (2015).
Fig. 1 Byssosphaeria keithii (K(M) 108784, holotype of Sphaeria keithii Berk. & Broome). a, b Specimens and herbarium label. c–f Appearance of ascomata on host substrate. g Peridium h Trabeculate pseudoparaphyses. i, j Asci with ascospores. k, l Ascospores. Scale bars: e = 500 μm, f = 200 μm, d, g = 50 μm, h–l = 5 μm.
Importance and distribution
There are 38 Byssosphaeria epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but several species have been transferred to other genera such as Acanthonitschkea, Chaetosphaeria, Dematophora, Endoxylina, Eriosphaeria, Exosporiella, Herpotrichia, Hypoxylon, Nitschkia, Pseudotrichia, Rosellinia, Scortechinia, Thaxteriella and Trichosphaeria. Byssosphaeria comprises 16 species known on a wide range of plants such as Acer pseudoplatanus (Sapindaceae), Archontophoenix alexandrae (Arecaceae), Chromolaena odorata (Asteraceae), Cocos nucifera (Arecaceae), Deutzia sp. (Hydrangeaceae), Jussiaea longifolia (Onagraceae), Populus sp. (Salicaceae), Rhapis excelsa (Arecaceae), Robinia pseudoacacia (Fabaceae) and Trachycarpus fortunei (Arecaceae). Byssosphaeria is distributed in Asia (China (Taiwan), Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand), Australia, Europe (Poland), South America (Argentina, Brazil) and The United States (Alaska, Louisiana, New Jersey).
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