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Platysporoides chartarum

Platysporoides chartarum (Fuckel) Shoemaker & C.E. Babc., Can. J. Bot. 70(8): 1650 (1992).

≡ Pleospora chartarum Fuckel, Jb. nassau. Ver. Naturk. 23-24: 133 (1870).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 565976; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00533, Fig. 1

Description: see Ariyawansa et al. (2014).

Material considered: see Ariyawansa et al. (2014).

Fig. 1 Platysporoides chartarum (HUH 00290381, holotype). a, b Herbarium label and specimen. c Appearance of ascomata on host substrate. d Section through ascomata. e Peridium. f Pseudoparaphyses. g, h Asci with ascospores. i–l Ascospores (l: stained in Indian ink to show the surrounded sheath). Scale bars: d = 40 μm, e–h = 100 μm, i–l = 5 μm.

Importance and distribution

Platysporoides comprises eleven species known on a wide range of plants such as Arrhenatherum elatius (Poaceae), Arundo donax (Poaceae), Asparagus officinalis (Asparagaceae), Carex misandra (Cyperaceae), Draba aizoides (Brassicaceae), Festuca rubra (Poaceae), Hierochloe alpina (Poaceae), Kobresia schoenoides (Cyperaceae), Luzula sp. (Juncaceae), Phleum sp. (Poaceae), Poa arctica (Poaceae) and Puccinellia angustata (Poaceae). Platysporoides is known from Asia (India), Europe (Austria, Canada, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland) and the United States (Washington, Wyoming).

 

References

Ariyawansa HA, Hyde KD, Jayasiri SC, Buyck B et al. 2015 – Fungal diversity notes 111–252–taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa. Fungal Diversity 75, 27–274.

Shoemaker RA, Babcock CE. 1992 – Apllanodictyosporous Pleosporales: Clathrospora, Comoclathris, Graphylliyum, Macrospora, Platysporoides. Canadian Journal of Botany 70, 1617–1658.

Suetrong S, Schoch CL, Spatafora JW, Kohlmeyer J et al. 2009 – Molecular systematics of the marine Dothideomycetes. Studies in Mycology 64, 155–173.

Wehmeyer LE. 1961 – A world monograph of the genus Pleospora and its segregates, University of Michigan Press, Michigan.

 

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