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Inflatispora pseudostromatica

Inflatispora pseudostromatica Y. Zhang ter, J. Fourn. & K.D. Hyde, in Zhang, Fournier, Bahkali & Hyde, Sydowia 63(2): 290 (2011).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 561845; Facesoffungi number: FoF11813 , Fig. 1

Description: see Zhang et al. (2011).

Material considered: see Zhang et al. (2011).

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Fig. 1 Inflatispora pseudostromatica (IFRD 8989, holotype, re-drawn from Figs. 7–11 in Zhang et al. 2011). a Gregarious ascomata on host surface. b Section through ascomata showing the pseudostroma and peridium structure. c Peridium. d Pseudoparaphyses. e Ascus. f Apical part of an ascus showing the small ocular chamber. g Ascospores surrounded with mucilaginous sheath. Scale bars: a = 0.5 mm, b = 100 μm, c = 20 μm, dg = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Inflatispora comprises two species known on dead rachis of Caryota (Arecaceae) in Asia (Thailand) and on decorticated wood of Rhamnus alpina (Rhamnaceae) in forest litter in Europe (France).

 

References

Holm L. 1957 – Etudes taxonomiques sur les Pleopsoracées. Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses 14, 1–188.

Shoemaker RA, Babcock CE. 1987 – Additions to Nodulosphaeria. Canadian Journal of Botany 65, 1921–1926.

Shoemaker RA. 1984 – Canadian and some extralimital Nodulosphaeria and Entodesmium species. Canadian Journal of Botany 62, 2730–2753.

Zhang Y, Fournier J, Bahkali A, Hyde KD. 2011 – Inflatispora, a novel lignicolous genus of Pleosporales from France. Sydowia 63, 287–285.

 

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