Neomassarina
Neomassarina Phook., Jayasiri & K.D. Hyde, in Hyde et al., Fungal Diversity 80: 136 (2016).
Index Fungorum number: IF 552225; Facesoffungi number: FoF 02259, 3 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2022), 3 species with molecular data.
Saprobic on host. Sexual morph: Ascostromata black, solitary, scattered to clustered, immersed, erumpent through host surface, slightly raised, globose to subglobose, uni- to bi-loculate, glabrous, ostiole central, with a minute papilla. Peridium thin-walled, of unequal thickness, composed of 3–5 layers of dark pseudoparenchymatous cells, arranged in a textura angularis. Hamathecium composed of dense, cellular pseudoparaphyses, anastomosing among the asci, embedded in a hyaline gelatinous matrix. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, cylindrical to cylindric-clavate, short pedicellate. Ascospores uni- to bi-seriate, hyaline, pale brown at maturity, fusiform, uniseptate, smooth-walled, with guttules, surrounded by a distinct mucilaginous sheath. Asexual morph: Unknown (adapted from Hyde et al. 2016).
Type species: Neomassarina thailandica Phook. Jayasiri & K.D. Hyde
Notes: Neomassarina was introduced by Hyde et al. (2016) with N. thailandica as type species. Neomassarina was previously referred to Pleosporales genera incertae sedis and accommodated massarina-like species, but is not congeneric with Massarina. Neomassarina resembles Massarina in having globose to subglobose ascostromata, with a thin-walled peridium and usually hyaline, fusiform ascospores, with broadly cellular pseudoparaphyses but are phylogenetically distinct (Hyde et al. 2016). A second species N. pandanicola was introduced by Hyde et al. (2018). Mapook et al. (2020) introduced the third species N. chromolaenae and accommodated Neomassarina in its own family Neomassarinaceae. Molecular markers available for Neomassarina are ITS, LSU, SSU, RPB2 and TEF-1.
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