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Pleoseptum yuccaesedum

Pleoseptum yuccaesedum A.W. Ramaley & M.E. Barr, Mycotaxon 54: 76 (1995).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 413848; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00283, Fig. 1

Description: see Phookamsak et al. (2014).

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

Fig. 1 Pleoseptum yuccaesedum (BPI 802381, holotype). a Herbarium label and specimens. b Appearance of ascomata on host surface. c Section through ascoma. d Peridium. e Pseudoparaphyses. f, g Asci. h–k Ascospores. l Section through conidiomata. m Peridium. n Conidiogenous cells. o Conidiogenous cells stained in congo red reagent showing sympodial proliferation. p–r Conidia. Scale bars: c, k = 100 μm, d, l–n = 20 μm, e, f = 50 μm, g–j, o–r = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Pleoseptum comprises only one species known on dead leaves of Yucca baccata (Asparagaceae) in The United States (Colorado).

 

References

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Phookamsak R, Liu JK, McKenzie EH, Manamgoda DS et al. 2014 – Revision of Phaeosphaeriaceae. Fungal Diversity 68, 159–238.

Ramaley AW, Barr ME. 1995 – New dictyosporous species from leaves of Agavaceae. Mycotaxon 54, 75–90.

Wanasinghe DN, Jones EBG, Camporesi E, Boonmee S et al. 2014 – Dematiopleospora mariae gen. sp. nov., from Ononis spinosa in Italy. Cryptogamie Mycologie 35, 105–117.

Wijayawardene NN, Crous PW, Kirk PM, Hawksworth DL et al. 2014 – Naming and outline of Dothideomycetes–2014 including proposals for the protection or suppression of generic names. Fungal Diversity 69, 1–55.

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