Pleosphaerellula cornicola
Pleosphaerellula cornicola Naumov & Czerepan., Bot. Mater. Otd. Sporov. Rast. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 8: 152 (1952).
Index Fungorum number: IF 303842; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11826, Fig. 1
Description: see Thambugala et al. (2014).
Material considered: see Thambugala et al. (2014).
Fig. 1 Pleosphaerellula cornicola (LE, holotype). a Herbarium label. b Appearance of ascomata on the host substrate. c Section through ascomata. d Peridium. e Pseudoparaphyses. f, g Asci. h, i Ascospores (i: redrawn from Czerepanova and Kuznetzova 1952). Scale bars: b = 200 μm, c = 100 μm, d, e = 50 μm, f, g = 20 μm, h, i = 5 μm.
Importance and distribution
Pleosphaerellula comprises only one species known on dead and dying branches of Cornus sanguinea and C. stolonifera (Cornaceae) in Asia (Northwest European Russia).
References
Czerepanova NP, Kuznetzova LS. 1952 – Fungi in Cornus. Notulae Systematicae e Sectione Cryptogamica Instituti Botanici Nomeine V.L. Komarovii Academiae Scientificae USSR 8, 148–163.
Lumbsch HT, Huhndorf SM. 2010 – Outline of Ascomycota 2009. Myconet 14, 1–64.
Thambugala KM, Ariyawansa HA, Liu ZY, Chukeatirote E, Hyde KD. 2014 – Towards a natural classification of Dothideomycetes 6: The genera Dolabra, Placostromella, Pleosphaerellula, Polysporidiella and Pseudotrichia (Dothideomycetes incertae sedis). Phytotaxa 176, 55–67.
Tóth S, Gödöllő 1975 – Some new microscopic fungi, III. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 67, 31−35.
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