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Mamillisphaeria dimorphospora

Mamillisphaeria dimorphospora K.D. Hyde, S.W. Wong & E.B.G. Jones, Nova Hedwigia 62(3-4): 515 (1996).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 415619; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00773, Fig. 1

Description: see Hyde et al. (1996).

Material considered: see Hyde et al. (1996).

Fig. 1 Mamillisphaeria dimorphospora (HKU(M) 7425, paratype). a Ascomata scattered on the host surface. b Section of an ascoma. c Trabeculate pseudoparaphyses in a gelatinous matrix. d, e Asci. f, g Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 0.5 mm, b, d, e = 100 μm, c = 10 μm, f, g = 20 μm.

Importance and distribution

Mamillisphaeria comprises only one species known on submerged wood in Australia (Queensland).

 

Reference

Hyde KD, Wong SW, Jones EBG. 1996 – Tropical Australian freshwater fungi. 11. Mamillisphaeria dimorphospora gen. et sp. nov. and notes on fresh water ascomycetes with dimorphic ascospores. Nova Hedwigia 62, 513–520.

 

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