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Tetraploa aristata

Tetraploa aristata Berk. & Broome, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., Ser. 2 5: 459 (1850).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 148113; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11755, Fig. 1

Description: see Tanaka et al. (2009); Hyde et al. (2013).

Material examined: see Tanaka et al. (2009); Hyde et al. (2013).

 

Fig. 1 Tetraploa aristata (Re-drawn from Fig. 1 in Ellis 1949). a–o Development of α spores. p Young β spore. q Mature α spore. r α spore stained to show protoplasmic linkage by pores. s Mycelium. t Lateral view of β spore. u End view of β spore. Scale bar: (All × 500)

Importance and distribution

There are 22 Tetraploa epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but several species have been transferred to Pseudotetraploa. Tetraploa comprises 15 species known on a wide range of plants such as Agrostis tenuis (Poaceae), Amomum corynostachyum (Zingiberaceae), Anadelphia leptocoma (Poaceae), Andropogon gerardii (Poaceae), Angelica sylvestris (Apiaceae), Arundo donax (Poaceae), Avena pratensis (Poaceae), Axonopus affinis (Poaceae), Bactris gasipaes (Arecaceae) amongst others. Tetraploa is reported from Africa (Ghana, Sierra Leone), Asia (Malaysia, Myanmar), Europe (Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom) and the United States (California, Florida, Virginia).

 

References

Bao DF, Hyde KD, McKenzie EHC, Jeewon R et al. 2021 – Biodiversity of Lignicolous Freshwater Hyphomycetes from China and Thailand and Description of Sixteen Species. Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) 7, 669.

Berkeley MJ, Broome CE. 1850 – Notices of British fungi (438–501). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5, 455–466.

Ellis MB. 1949 – Tetraploa. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 32, 246–251.

Hatakeyama S, Tanaka K, Harada Y. 2008 – Bambusicolous fungi in Japan (7): a new coelomycetous genus, Versicolorisporium. Mycoscience 49, 211–214.

Hyde KD, Dong Y, Phookamsak R, Jeewon R et al. 2020 – Fungal diversity notes 1151–1276: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions on genera and species of fungal taxa. Fungal Diversity 100, 5–277.

Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Liu JK, Ariyawansa H et al. 2013 – Families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 63, 1–313.

Li W, Dan-Feng B, Bhat JD, Hongyan S. 2020 – Tetraploa aquatica (Tetraplosphaeriaceae), a new freshwater fungal species from Yunnan Province, China. Phytotaxa 459, 181–189.

Tanaka K, Hirayama K, Yonezawa H, Hatakeyama S et al. 2009 – Molecular taxonomy of bambusicolous fungi: Tetraplosphaeriaceae, a new pleosporalean family with Tetraploa-like anamorphs. Studies in Mycology 64, 175–209.

 

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