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Fungal Diversity<br />

Fig. 55 Massarina eburnea<br />

(from IFRD 2006). a Ascomata<br />

on the host surface. b Section<br />

of an ascoma. c Ascus with a<br />

short pedicel. d Cellular pseudoparaphyses.<br />

e Section of the<br />

peridium comprising a few<br />

layers of compressed cells. f<br />

Asci in pseudoparaphyses. g<br />

Three-septate ascospores. Scale<br />

bars: a=0.5 mm, b=100 μm,<br />

c–g=20 μm<br />

Generic description<br />

Habitat terrestrial or freshwater, saprobic. Ascomata<br />

medium-sized, scattered, or in small groups, immersed,<br />

erumpent to superficial, subglobose, black; apex with a<br />

wide and usually somewhat compressed papilla. Peridium<br />

thick or thin, usually thicker near the apex,<br />

composed of 2–3 layers of thick walled scleroparenchymatous<br />

cells. Hamathecium of dense, trabeculate<br />

pseudoparaphyses. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, cylindrical<br />

to cylindro-clavate, with a short, thick, furcate pedicel.<br />

Ascospores fusoid to narrowly ellipsoid, brown or dark<br />

brown, multi-septate.<br />

Anamorphs reported for genus: none.<br />

Literature: Barr1989c; Huhndorf et al. 1990; Kohlmeyer et al.<br />

1996; Müller 1950; Tanaka and Harada 2004;Tanakaetal.2005.<br />

Type species<br />

Massariosphaeria phaeospora (E. Müll.) Crivelli, Ueber<br />

die Heterogene Ascomycetengattung Pleospora Rabh.;<br />

Vorschlag für eine Aufteilung (Diss. Eid genössischen Tech<br />

Hochsch Zürich 7318): 141 (1983). (Fig. 56)<br />

≡ Leptosphaeria phaeospora E. Müll., Sydowia 4: 208<br />

(1950).<br />

Ascomata 400–550 μm high×300–500 μm diam.,<br />

scattered, or in small groups, immersed, semi-immersed,<br />

subglobose, black, apex wide papilla, sometimes slightly<br />

compressed, 40–70(−100) μm broad (Fig. 56a). Peridium

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